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0 pointsproblems8y ago0 comments

Yes, it's really that effective - blocking the facebook like button doesn't break most websites.

And typically a request for something like jquery from a CDN will contain little more than your IP address and cookies. You can even prevent the cookies from being sent if you want. The only way they could get away with more than this would be to modifying the resulting script to grab more info from your machine.

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sillysaurus38y ago

Isn't your IP address plus cookies enough to track you?

problemsOP8y ago

Yes, but they can be trivially blocked or discarded. My main point is that no advanced fingerprinting tactics can be used so the simple means work in the case of most site-breaking things. Privacy Badger eats CDN cookies - that's actually one of its main features, so it will prevent this kind of thing quite nicely without breaking websites.

sillysaurus38y ago

The vast majority of people correlate 1:1 with IP address alone, so I'm not sure how effective this is. Nonetheless, that's pretty cool.

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0 pointsproblems8y ago0 comments

Yes, it's really that effective - blocking the facebook like button doesn't break most websites.

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sillysaurus38y ago

Isn't your IP address plus cookies enough to track you?

problemsOP8y ago

sillysaurus38y ago

The vast majority of people correlate 1:1 with IP address alone, so I'm not sure how effective this is. Nonetheless, that's pretty cool.

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