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Trackers on MM, ranging from 6-94 on various pages
If you are not aware of cookies and trackers this may not mean much, though it should. I use a program called Ghostery which prevents trackers and displays all the ones trying to load. Most bait and switch sites have 50-200 of these and they will cause no end of data transfers about you to everyone of their clients. Many of these trackers are persistent and so will continue to broadcast where you go, what you look at as long as the browser is open or the tracker is left alive. Once installed, it needs to be removed to stop its activity. This activity is hard for a user to spot, but it will slow your system down if you are not on super fast internet or have a lot of memory What I found odd is that MM which generally had the six to ten trackers (that is still a lot) now has upwards of 90 on most forum pages. In addition to loading your browsers with garbage and data miners, it can seriously affect performance. I understand that MM is free to most, yet this seems like a lot. Apr 13 15 01:19 pm Link I also use Ghostery. Apr 13 15 01:23 pm Link I'm unable to find a page with more than 5-10. Can you please CAM with links to pages that have an inordinate number of hits? Thanks. Apr 13 15 02:02 pm Link Welcome to the internet- just about every site has scripts running that aren't essential to the actual site functioning. Using an addon like noscript (or ghostery) is very eye opening. *not seeing more than 6-7 scripts on my end Apr 13 15 02:57 pm Link I only see 8 trackers on this page. Apr 13 15 03:09 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: Five for me. Apr 13 15 03:17 pm Link Jean Renard Photography wrote: Apr 13 15 03:27 pm Link Dumb question. Might it not be that the number of trackers could vary (on the very same page) depending on what particular ads happen to be showing at the time? Apr 13 15 05:07 pm Link Very informative! I just added Ghostery. (Blocking 5 - 6 ads here) Apr 13 15 05:24 pm Link Thanks, I just added Ghostery.........very interesting, showing 12, its good to be aware.....................W Apr 13 15 05:29 pm Link LightDreams wrote: Not a dumb question. But yes, different ads and especially different ad networks will use different resources to deliver those ads. Apr 13 15 05:37 pm Link If you are getting many more than 5 to 8 your system might have adware injectors installed. (I get 7 on this page) AdwCleaner does a good job at removing many of them. free download http://download.cnet.com/AdwCleaner/300 … 51221.html http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ Cleans out all sorts of stuff that Malwarebytes and antivirus programs miss. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- reference Out with unwanted ad injectors http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ca … ctors.html Ad injection and you - how adware gets on your computer http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive … puter.aspx Is your computer plagued by ad injectors? Google shares staggering adware infection stats https://grahamcluley.com/2015/04/ad-injectors/ Apr 13 15 05:43 pm Link Michael Bots wrote: Anything you download from CNET is likely to have malware, so you will be worse off. If the link is there go to the authors site. Apr 13 15 11:10 pm Link No Injectors or other malware and still I get some pages with a lot of 30-60 trackers, that seem is a common spike amount, while the average page has 6-8. I took several screen shots, but since I have no online file hosting I have no idea how to share them with anyone. Keep in mind that the technology is changing to device recognition and there is nothing you can do. Sites like Facebook and presumably this one will simply track your arrival as you sign in and keep your history. I have not yet seen on MM the floating data that you find between Facebook and other sites like Amazon. There if you look at a book on Amazon you will mysteriously find it on sale on Facebook. With programmatic ads becoming the norm, that history allow advertisers (and others) to track your history to deliver ad content automatically. Keep in mind that many of you are not using your real names for privacy reasons, yet the cookies and trackers can easily know who you are by inference. I would suggest using separate browsers for different activity though nothing can prevent device specific tracking from happening which is an NSA level technology now open to advertisers and others. Apr 14 15 08:29 pm Link Hey!!! How else am I gonna know what ammo is on sale at Cheaper than dirt without my targeted ads?? Quit rocking the boat guys!!:-))))))) Apr 14 15 08:52 pm Link |
