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Textpattern Solutions Ads
Was looking at the eather on Wunderground, when I got an ad, boy was I surprised.
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Mr. Cookies is following you around.
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#3 2015-07-15 18:52:12
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That’s how the web works when you travel with Javascript on, without tracker blocker/cookie blocker/ad blocker. But even with those: My browser’s fingerprint is unique among 20,000,000 browsers (i.e. only four people from Germany have my browser fingerprint). Plus: They have my IP, why then do I still have to enter my address anywhere ;)
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Yeah, I was on Amazon looking at the book when I was working on welovetxp.
I’ve been kind of lax lately, since I’m now using Firefox Developer Edition with a new profile. On my main profile, I eliminate cookies that I haven’t explicitly told it to keep on browser close.
Even with eliminating cookies, they know who you are, they have their ways.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 5,591,968 tested so far.
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hcgtv wrote #293269:
Even with eliminating cookies, they know who you are, they have their ways.
Ah, the global reach of the media server. I wrote about precisely this rather daft phenomenon once.
Useful links for the bookmark bar:
- Opt-out of context-based ads
- More places to opt-out of context-based ads
- Opt-out of Google tracked context-sensitive ads
I’m sure there are others. The first two sites above are quite often nebulous and will occasionally refuse to turn off some sites due to network load or some other random excuse. And it’s only stored per browser I believe so for polybrowser folks like me it’s a bit of a chore. But on the whole, I find it better to have random ads than the same ad over and over ad infinitum because random ads are easier to ignore.
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Bloke wrote #293275:
Ah, the global reach of the media server. I wrote about precisely this rather daft phenomenon once.
the sell first, everything else second mentality – sucks doesn’t it?
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Is there a way to block cookies (other than 1st party) from within Textpattern? Could be a nice feature to advertise a TXP site as tracking-free (other than setting cookies for login).
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jayrope wrote #311340:
Is there a way to block cookies (other than 1st party) from within Textpattern? Could be a nice feature to advertise a TXP site as tracking-free (other than setting cookies for login).
Textpattern CMS itself as of 4.7 (and I think 4.6 too) is tracking free, as long as you don’t enable logging or use the ‘Remember me’ feature of comments forms. Of course, by providing comments on a site you are collecting personal information regardless of cookies so think about whether your site needs that feature or not too.
Other than that, third party cookies are down to you. Simply don’t use any services that require them, such as Google Analytics (or pretty much any Google service), Facebook ‘like’ buttons, etc.
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