Comment on Class-action complaint against Kissmetrics and others for use of Flash LSO [pdf]parentComments−nikcub15ysolution to Etags is to block all third-party requests by default, and let the user selectively allow for each site they use.Working on a plugin to do that now:http://github.com/nikcub/parley(a bit inactive only because I haven't committed to gh since initial commit, but I will be in the next few days)the last-modified header can also be used to track - it accepts anything. I described it in a comment on the last thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564−pornel15yBetter solution to Etag and cache-based tracking in general would be to change browser cache from: cache[url] = data to cache[(url,origin)] = data (origin is roughly the domain of the referrer)This way you don't need to block all 3rd party requests and caching will still work reasonably well for each site.
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solution to Etags is to block all third-party requests by default, and let the user selectively allow for each site they use.
Working on a plugin to do that now:
http://github.com/nikcub/parley
(a bit inactive only because I haven't committed to gh since initial commit, but I will be in the next few days)
the last-modified header can also be used to track - it accepts anything. I described it in a comment on the last thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564
Better solution to Etag and cache-based tracking in general would be to change browser cache from:
to (origin is roughly the domain of the referrer)This way you don't need to block all 3rd party requests and caching will still work reasonably well for each site.