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by rpdillon 815 days ago
This is the way.

Unfortunately, I've had no luck getting others to buy into the idea that they should understand this level of detail so they can make these calls. Quite frustrating and depressing, since companies will relentlessly exploit their indifference.
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TheDong 815 days ago
If other people buy into this idea, then every site will begin proxying third-party javascript.

If the only way to get trackers on the average person is to serve it from the same first-party domain, or to bundle it in with the giant 'app.js', you better believe they'll do that.

Right now, the fact that only a small fraction of people run adblockers, and an even smaller fraction block javascript, is what allows it to work.

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pmontra 815 days ago
Not many developers do that. The general population won't even understand what they are looking at. If you are good at teaching you can give them an idea and a few of them maybe will do it, but the time invested in the allow/reload loop is probably too much unless one is really committed.

In my case when every attempt fails I know it could be the side effect of some other privacy add on. If it's a random blog/news, that's the end of it. If I really have to use that site I open Chrome, do what I have to do, close it. Of course given a choice I pick sites that work well with only JS from a few inevitable sources.

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