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Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools [pdf]

18 pointsby remxabout 8 years ago

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samaparicioabout 8 years ago
Shoutout to PiHole - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;</a> which falls under the category of DNS blockers. One tiny Raspberry Pi can provide adblocking to all the devices in a network and radically speeds up page loading.<p>True, you can&#x27;t block trackers on domains that aren&#x27;t blacklisted, but on the other hand you can block trackers for all devices on the network.<p>I had Ghostery installed for years (gets one of the highest blocking marks) but I didn&#x27;t like that it slowed down Chrome, hogged a lot of memory, and has the capability to send traffic back to a company.
mirimirabout 8 years ago
That&#x27;s quite depressing.<p>The best defense against tracking, in my humble opinion, is compartmentalization. If you&#x27;re concerned about X and Y being associated through tracking, compartmentalize them. Use multiple personas, each with its own VM(s) and chains of VPNs and Tor. I don&#x27;t care at all if everything that Mirimir does online is tracked and associated.
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