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Re: NoScript Sightings

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dhouwn wrote:NoScript mentioned as not being entirely being reliable against tracking by GA per default:
http://work.erikvold.com/addons/2013/02/16/no-google-analytics.html wrote:Often this __utm.gif image is referred to as “the invisible gif” because it is only 1 transparent pixel, and it can be used to track users even without ga.js which many users of NoScript already block thinking that does something, and webdevs have long ago worked around.

Not surprising, really, since NoScript is primarily about security. The web bug feature was killed a while ago when Mozilla added speculative parsing. If you really care about privacy, you need eg RequestPolicy, Ghostery, Adblock Plus, etc.

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