On: Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless ...

[smokeyj]

But you can't avoid google analytics..

[chimeracoder → smokeyj]

> But you can't avoid google analytics..

That's the easiest to avoid. Ghostery, or a simple edit to your /etc/hosts file.

The problem is that tracking is much more pervasive, and there are many more ways you can be tracked that are much harder to block than Google Analytics.

[smokeyj → chimeracoder]

What about for iOS? Sure there's more pervasive methods, but I doubt any are as ubiquitous as GA. My ghostery plugin shows GA for nearly every website I visit.

[detaro → smokeyj]

I thought iOS browsers' adblockers can at least do domain-based blocking, which is enough for the typcial GA case?

[Fnoord → smokeyj]

There are adblockers for iOS, but not for old versions of iOS and I think 32 bit versions of iOS don't work with it. IIRC Apple has allowed it since 9.0.

[cmdrfred → smokeyj]

Adblock works on Android.

[mastazi → smokeyj]

Try Privacy Badger, made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It protects you from many trackers, not only Google's, for example it disables the tracking capabilities of Facebook like buttons. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[Fnoord → smokeyj]

Why not? There's loads of options. Some examples include uBlock, NoScript, /etc/hosts

[JamieF1 → smokeyj]

Doesn't ublock block requests to the likes of GA?