Saw Ten: Microsoft will push WinX even harder in 2016

[Cerb]

Has anybody ever looked at the amount of analytic software that is running on any website? You have been tracked and profiled for years.

Yes. My add-ons tell me all about the ones that were found. The right direction would be for less of that to be going on. That encroaching onto local PC activity is the wrong direction.

 

[Skel]

Has anybody ever looked at the amount of analytic software that is running on any website? You have been tracked and profiled for years.

Haven't look into much depth, but do see them blocked via noscript on just about every page. The worst are the ones that seed a half dozen of those analytic packages.

 

[Cerb]

Haven't look into much depth, but do see them blocked via noscript on just about every page. The worst are the ones that seed a half dozen of those analytic packages.

You need to go to crappy popular blog sites. It can be way more than half a dozen. Thing is, you usually have to enable a few of them, so that they can run, then inject the others.

 

[Skel]

You need to go to crappy popular blog sites. It can be way more than half a dozen. Thing is, you usually have to enable a few of them, so that they can run, then inject the others.

I get to a point in those sites where i move on. If I have to enable (even temporarily) a few dozen sites just to get a picture up I just move on. I've yet to find anything worth the hassle.

 

[Jeff7]

Has anybody ever looked at the amount of analytic software that is running on any website? You have been tracked and profiled for years.

No I haven't ;^)

I'm sure there are some ways around things like Ghostery, Adblock, and hosts file filters. There's a lot of money to be made in advertising, which continues to astonish me. I don't know how much money they think I'm going to spend in a year because of ads. I guess it's one of those deals where 20% of the viewership (the most susceptible to suggestion) make up 80% of the revenue.
But where there's a lot of money to be made, life finds a way.

 

[Cerb]

I get to a point in those sites where i move on. If I have to enable (even temporarily) a few dozen sites just to get a picture up I just move on. I've yet to find anything worth the hassle.

Same, but it's sometimes curiously interesting to find out how much actually loads and runs on some pages, especially when there are multiple levels of Javascript loading other Javascript .

 

[Cerb]

I'm sure there are some ways around things like Ghostery, Adblock, and hosts file filters. There's a lot of money to be made in advertising, which continues to astonish me. I don't know how much money they think I'm going to spend in a year because of ads. I guess it's one of those deals where 20% of the viewership (the most susceptible to suggestion) make up 80% of the revenue.
But where there's a lot of money to be made, life finds a way.

If one thing loads that can track you, and others don't, you are likely identified in part by your use of blockers, once customers get their data from several such companies, and crunch it.

 

[Genx87]

Yes. My add-ons tell me all about the ones that were found. The right direction would be for less of that to be going on. That encroaching onto local PC activity is the wrong direction.

A popular news site has 18 or more pieces of analytic software running on it. Due to blocking at the firewall it caused Internet Explorer 9-11 to crash. So we told our users to drop IE and go with something like Chrome or Firefox.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Speaking of analytic garbage on websites, been toying with the idea of blocking these right at the DNS server. Basically a list I can maintain myself as well as get from outside sources such as this:

http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?showintro=0;hostformat=hosts

I realized just how bad it is the other day, when I did a search on a retail website for something, only to find an ad for that exact object on Facebook at work. WTF? How do they even do that? Can scripts be used to see what you are doing in other tabs?

 

[lxskllr]

Can scripts be used to see what you are doing in other tabs?

Scripts and cookies. Your setup can also be fingerprinted, but I'm unaware of ad companies doing that; yet...

 

[Maximilian]

Don't worry, Windows will welcome you back when you are ready

For reals this time

Laptops been Debian for ~6 months. Server has been debian/mint for the past 2 years.

Desktop is the last windows holdout in my house.

 

[poofyhairguy]

The only way to win is not to play.