what the hell, Ghostery?
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Not sure this is a bug per se, but what the hell?
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@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
Not sure this is a bug per se, but what the hell?
Maybe that orange thing has something to do with it?
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@Dreikin said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
Not sure this is a bug per se, but what the hell?
Maybe that orange thing has something to do with it?
...no I don't know why those weren't blocked. Fixed.
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@Arantor wonder if iframely is to blame?
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@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
Not sure this is a bug per se, but what the hell?
I don't understand, what are we looking at? What is the bug?
Are you @ben_lubar 's alt?
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@Tsaukpaetra OK so Ghostery has a list of trackers and things that it deems 'bad'. Typically, while surfing WTDWTF, I see 1-3 of them, depending on the page, e.g. Google Analytics is everywhere, embedding Twitter tends to add stuff, people coming via OAuth tends to add stuff.
But 28 is a level I've never seen on here before, including a shitlist of things that I'm confused about - there is no reason LinkedIn Marketing Solutions should be loaded here for example.
But I'm also not sure it's a bug, hence in Meta.
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@bb36e given that I run a webserver for dev purposes, having everything point at 127.0.0.1 isn't quite the smartest idea :(
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@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
Not sure this is a bug per se, but what the hell?
Which thread/what specific URL did you get this on?
@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
@bb36e given that I run a webserver for dev purposes, having everything point at 127.0.0.1 isn't quite the smartest idea :(
Point everything to 0.0.0.0 instead.
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@DCoder I only noticed it after a fairly prolonged browsing session but since this is an SPA, it's likely it accumulated across a number of threads and iframely embeds.
For example, when I posted above, I had one listed - Google Analytics. Right now I have 6 - Alexa Metrics, Google Analytics, Quantcast, Scorecard, FB Connect and Gravatar.
There is also the convenience factor in Ghostery that if something I really want to do is blocked, I can temporarily re-enable it without having to work out which domain(s) to re-enable.
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@Arantor Ah, fair point. I usually just keep
/recent
open and view individual threads in new tabs, so those trackers don't accumulate this way.
And yes, Ghostery/uMatrix is more convenient than hosts, I was just pointing out a difference between127.*.*.*
and0.0.0.0
.
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@Arantor NoScript also accumulates a list of stuff during browsing.
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@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
@bb36e given that I run a webserver for dev purposes, having everything point at 127.0.0.1 isn't quite the smartest idea :(
Point it at 127.255.0.1 instead? And limit the IPs your local webserver listens on, of course. Or serve different content per IP.
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@PleegWat that could work; I just don't want to have to deal with Apache being involved in something that doesn't require Apache's involvement whatsoever.
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@aliceif said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
@Arantor NoScript also accumulates a list of stuff during browsing.
That's because this is a Next Generation Web Application.
You aren't actually browsing between pages. You're using AJAX! To load pages and render them!
It's like having a browser inside your browser!
Which means you're always on the same page, so Ghostery's and NoScript's list of "dumb stupid shit on this page" keeps growing.
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@Arantor said in what the hell, Ghostery?:
I only noticed it after a fairly prolonged browsing session but since this is an SPA, it's likely it accumulated across a number of threads and iframely embeds.