[RexRollman]

I usually use Firefox with it set to forget everything on exit, along with the Noscript plugin. Does anyone know if this tracking service would work on a FF user running Noscript?

By the way, using Noscript has made me aware of something that I didn't previously know: many sites call Javascript from lots of other domains. I've seen websites with as many as 18 other domains listed on the Noscript pull down menu. And I have seen an increasing number of XSS alerts as well.

[dredmorbius]

Amen to JS from third-party domains.

I see this as biting us in the butt sometime. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.

What's more annoying is playing the "NoScript allow roulette" game of trying to figure out which domains/scripts you have to allow for some site feature to work.

[sixtofour]

This is why I don't bother with cookie monitoring at all, and why I plug my ears and say "la la la" and pretend that everything will be alright. I really don't want to spend the time figuring out how to make my bank work.

I suppose when the government gets in the game, either through direct tracking or just making laws requiring tracking companies to keep particular data for particular lengths of time, then it will be a civil liberties issue and I'll care more. But it will probably also be illegal by then to circumvent tracking.

But that's just crazy. That would be like the government demanding that ISPs keep credit card information on their customers.

[lukeschlather]

For banking and stuff with way too much Javascript I use a second browser, and I do a complete wipe of all private information after every use.

[Tobu]

chromium --temp-profile --no-first-run is the ticket for me.

[sp332]

All the social sharing buttons use 3rd-party JS. You can see the "embed" code for Google's new +1 button here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-button-... This lets the sites update APIs without breaking every page on the Internet :)

[ktsmith]

And disabling all those crappy social sharing buttons makes the pages so much better. From faster loading to less clutter there are a bunch of benefits. Sometimes I'm flabbergasted how crappy sites are when I sit down to a machine without a javascript blocker.

[NoPiece]

plus many sites use google's library api to load things like jquery! Used for good, 3rd party JS is a helpful thing.

http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html

[justincormack]

You might want to remove all caching. Though deleting cache on exit will disrupt tracking if you exit often.

The etag mechanism will return each user a different etag for a piece of content, so the browser will send an etag changed request with that etag in. This will be stored with the browser cache.