wow a lot of tracking on this site.

rocketman122

Senior Member
started using ghostery app for FF and im a bit disappointed theres so many trackers visiting this site.

chartbeat
commission junction
facebook connect
google analytics
google+
netsheller
tynt

I had to block them. too much.
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
started using ghostery app for FF and im a bit disappointed theres so many trackers visiting this site.

chartbeat
commission junction
facebook connect
google analytics
google+
netsheller
tynt

I had to block them. too much.

Wish i knew how,i often suffer a slow connection and ime sure that crap makes it worse
 

rocketman122

Senior Member
install ghostery
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

also manually block specific cookies. every cookie that wants to sit on my pc needs my permission. 3rd party cookies never sit on my pc. too much bandwidth hogging. too much crap that sits on our computers stealing resources.

install adblock plus as well. thats a MUST app. flash blocker also.

I didnt build and tweak my pc so some tracking cookies and crap will sit on it and slow it down. thats bs.
 

rocketman122

Senior Member
I dont trust chrome anymore. its gotten bloated and uses too much ram. and its made by the company of most of the trackerts there! its an evil company imo.
 

J-see

Senior Member
I dont trust chrome anymore. its gotten bloated and uses too much ram. and its made by the company of most of the trackerts there! its an evil company imo.

I only use it on this PC since I'm going to trash it anyways. On my Mac I no longer use it since it is a resource hog. It's constantly doing shit even when I'm not at the PC and whatever it is, it ain't good.
 

rocketman122

Senior Member
I only use it on this PC since I'm going to trash it anyways. On my Mac I no longer use it since it is a resource hog. It's constantly doing shit even when I'm not at the PC and whatever it is, it ain't good.

exactly. I dont trust anything google. not for a millisecond. theyre an information collecting company. all they want to do is know everything about you. I dont trust many companies actually. theyre on my top 3 though. adobe is another and I want to see flash player gone. ms intel nvidia samsung apple amonst others. too many naive people.
 

J-see

Senior Member
I have some 7 Chrome processes running in my memory right now, good for some 400Mb.

Just for browsing this website.
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
Screenshot 2015-07-25 03.04.25.png only have one page open.
 

wornish

Senior Member
Its just the same on a mac. I bought a product called Little Snitch which monitors all the network activity that apps use to get in or out of the system.
It asks you once if the site they want to connect to is OK and lets you block it forever or just this time, it costs peanuts but saves lots of junk coming down or up the pipe.

You can also set up your browser Safari on the mac to block all cookies or let trusted sites place cookies on your system that remember your user name and password.
I regularly clear out cookies I don't want. Especially from tracker sites. Google is the worst offender they try and track everything you do, and I mean everything. Have you noticed that web adverts seem to know what you have been looking at ?

That said if you are on Adobe CC you will be amazed how often it links back to adobe even though you are not doing anything. The latest version of LR uses tons of cpu power searching through your photos doing face recognition everytime you load a new picture even if its a landscape !


If you use a twitter app then be aware they use lots of resources. It goes on and on. Its called progress.
 

WayneF

Senior Member
install ghostery
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

also manually block specific cookies. every cookie that wants to sit on my pc needs my permission. 3rd party cookies never sit on my pc. too much bandwidth hogging. too much crap that sits on our computers stealing resources.

install adblock plus as well. thats a MUST app. flash blocker also.


Blocking all cookies generally causes trouble on some web sites that will not proceed without the cookie. Good sites involving security. Or like this site where the cookie keeps you logged in.

Blocking specific cookies... there are so many, all unknown,, seems not feasible. I don't want to make a career of it. :)

The easy answer in FireFox is to simply have it delete cookies when you close the browser (Keep, until I close Firefox).
So let them write their cookies, but then they are removed every day, maybe a few times a day. Silently, automatically.
Then you do have to allow certain specific cookies to remain, like this site for your logon. But that is a small list of cookies, not a problem.
 
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J-see

Senior Member
Its just the same on a mac. I bought a product called Little Snitch which monitors all the network activity that apps use to get in or out of the system.
It asks you once if the site they want to connect to is OK and lets you block it forever or just this time, it costs peanuts but saves lots of junk coming down or up the pipe.

You can also set up your browser Safari on the mac to block all cookies or let trusted sites place cookies on your system that remember your user name and password.
I regularly clear out cookies I don't want. Especially from tracker sites. Google is the worst offender they try and track everything you do, and I mean everything. Have you noticed that web adverts seem to know what you have been looking at ?

That said if you are on Adobe CC you will be amazed how often it links back to adobe even though you are not doing anything. The latest version of LR uses tons of cpu power searching through your photos doing face recognition everytime you load a new picture even if its a landscape !


If you use a twitter app then be aware they use lots of resources. It goes on and on. Its called progress.

I solved the privacy issue very simple on the Mac. I registered everything on other people's names and addresses. ;)
 

WayneF

Senior Member
Most browser usage statistics say Chrome has greatly outdistanced Firefox, and certainly IE.

for example, w3:
Browser Statistics

Of course only the techies use the w3 site, but other reports only vary slightly in degree.


Chrome is OK to me, good in some ways, but I want to keep some specific Firefox apps, so I stay with it.
 
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