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by inopinatus 3770 days ago
Appropriately enough, this page triggered >400 requests blocked by my various privacy tools.
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michaelbuckbee 3770 days ago
I only get around 20 (Optimizely, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Perfect Audience, Hotjar, a bunch of ptEngine), I think you must also be blocking twimg.com which looks to be Twitter's avatar CDN, and those extra blocks are the attempts to load avatars in the comments.
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gnodar 3770 days ago
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with pretty much all 3rd party filters enabled, and only have 19 requests blocked. Would you mind sharing what tools you're using?
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gorhill 3770 days ago
Block `twimg.com` and see the count climbing to over 460 -- because of the avatars in the comment section. Personally I block such ubiquitous hostnames by default (using uBO's dynamic filtering), as they are as good as trackers (for Twitter in the current case).
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arca_vorago 3770 days ago
Lots of people install ublock but never look at the settings or enable dynamic filtering. Thats probably why you get more than them.
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trukernels 3769 days ago
Ironically, the guy you replied to is the developer behind Ublock. He's the person who knows the !most about internet privacy in Canada.
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ddorian43 3770 days ago
Maybe he means >40. I have 29 uBlock and 14 Ghostery
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inopinatus 3770 days ago
The relevant ones are Disconnect & uBlock Origin.
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MicroBerto 3770 days ago
Disconnect plugin grabbed most of them for me.
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