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0 pointszaruvi1y ago0 comments

Thanks for checking! Stealing this and adding it to my global userscript, just in case ublock doesn't catch the download.

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hedora1y ago· 2 in thread

Unless I’m misreading the code, it looks like it’s running GA, but giving it an opt-out signal to harvest.

SahAssar1y ago

It's not, It's adding a global variable called _gaUserPrefs to every site. If the actual GA script is loaded it would look for this as the opt-out signal.

Of course any other tracking (or GA tracking) could use this as a part of fingerprinting.

Animats1y ago

Ah. So there is a "trust us" aspect to this.

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