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14 Mar 2012, 2:39 pm

If you use Firefox that is. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

How come Wrong Planet show my presence to so many sites?


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14 Mar 2012, 2:43 pm

So many sites?

Can you please say what sites those are(I did the demo) I don't have mozilla, but have been leaning towards it more and more, probably will download it in a few weeks.


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14 Mar 2012, 3:20 pm

Nothing shows up for me. Perhaps this has something to do with my use of ghostery and a few other add-ons that aid privacy


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14 Mar 2012, 10:31 pm

Tollorin wrote:
If you use Firefox that is. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

How come Wrong Planet show my presence to so many sites?


Same problem here.
I wonder if WP can circumvent these sites.



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14 Mar 2012, 10:59 pm

slave wrote:
Tollorin wrote:
If you use Firefox that is. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

How come Wrong Planet show my presence to so many sites?


Same problem here.
I wonder if WP can circumvent these sites.


Use Ghostery for Firefox or Chrome. Like I said, nothing showed up for me on Collusion.


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16 Mar 2012, 7:15 pm

Some sites won't allow images to be loaded unless you come from their site, to avoid hot linking. I don't care too much about this kind of tracking, though I did filter out googleanalytics and similar site scripts.

Woooo, fancy graph. :333



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16 Mar 2012, 8:17 pm

slave wrote:
Tollorin wrote:
If you use Firefox that is. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

How come Wrong Planet show my presence to so many sites?
Same problem here.
I wonder if WP can circumvent these sites.
Unlikely - because they're being used by WP.
But that's not the same as saying you allow that use through your hardware - hence NoScript, AdBlockPlus etc.


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17 Mar 2012, 12:59 am

Shorttail wrote:
Some sites won't allow images to be loaded unless you come from their site, to avoid hot linking. I don't care too much about this kind of tracking, though I did filter out googleanalytics and similar site scripts.

Woooo, fancy graph. :333


How did you filter out G.analytics?



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17 Mar 2012, 7:55 am

^^ I do it with NoScript (another FF addon).


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17 Mar 2012, 1:45 pm

Cornflake wrote:
^^ I do it with NoScript (another FF addon).


Much obliged! :)



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20 Mar 2012, 1:18 am

Vigilans wrote:
Use Ghostery for Firefox or Chrome. Like I said, nothing showed up for me on Collusion.

Same thing I was going to say, but you beat me to it. :P