On 17/09/13 20:16, nev young wrote:
On 17/09/13 13:50, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 17 September 2013 11:26, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
If it helps, Ghostery will block many trackers, and I think there are several plug-ins for browsers which claim to block Google Analytics - e.g. the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (currently v 0.96) for Firefox available from Google.
Ghostery, despite being something I have known about for ages, is something I have only just looked at because of this thread. Interesting and useful tool, even though in general I'm the kind of person who (for the most part) isn't bothered about the kind of tracking that GA and the like indulge in.
I have been using ghostery for some time now. I installed it because of the time taken by some sites to perform all of their tracking (as many as 20 trackers on some sites). I have found that browsing is much faster with it activated than not but I have also found some sites that refuse to function if it is active.
Being able to turn it on and off with a click or two is, I would think, easier than modifying the redirection to a null file.
YMMV.
Yes & No I can turn Ghostery off with a couple of clicks. I have a script to disable & enable null redirection in a handful of clicks. Although, to be fair, enabling takes longer as it simplistic downloads and recreates the blocking file and both restart dnsmasq. I suppose both take longer than changing blocking status on Ghostery.
Steve