Eden @edensaesthetic@witches.town

@toodoo I usually switch between Firefox and Chrome depending on what I need.

Haven't seen anything specific for Firefox. The GA Debugger for Chrome is like a billion times better than the Firefox equivalents, and unfortunately WASP and DataSlayer don't have versions on FF :(

Mostly, Chrome is quick and I needed it to have certain plugins to actually check analytics.
Mostly Chrome gets its information from users being signed into something rather than anything specific to the browser, so for all my work things where I have to be signed into certain platforms, it's not worth it.

Also gonna be using PrivacyBadger over the next week out of curiosity if it gets better.

But right now it's still not blocking Tealium and it doesn't even KNOW that the custom tracker is on.

Hopefully at least like 3 of you that follow me/saw this weird tootstorm and were interested in learning about this stuff.

If you want to actually see what's being sent - check https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waspinspector-analytics-s/niaoghengfohplclhbjnjheodgkejpih - it's fairly bae for seeing what people really track. Starbucks was one of my favourites for the sheer AMOUNT OF STUFF they track.

You just wanna mess with what I track?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg

or find out ways to artificially set dom_referrer to other things. That's one of the few that we _need_ but doesn't benefit YOU at all.

But realistically that only sorts out the chaff, there's a lot of nastier tracking out there than Tealium/Omniture.

So if you want to really track people, your choices are:

Canvas Fingerprinting & Evercookie. Both are pretty unethical, and hilarious bad for business. So it's mostly porn sites who use it tbh.

Canvas Fingerprinting can be blocked using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canvasfingerprintblock/ipmjngkmngdcdpmgmiebdmfbkcecdndc

and Chrome/Safari seem to remove evercookie now https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/issues/125 but I'd have to check the new FF out myself.

ohmygod this was a joke because it was annoying me when I was doing analysis.

Blocking trackers is a lot easier than that method because realistically trackers rely on a few core principles:

1. Users don't know how to artificially set variables.
2. Users are willing to run _any_ javascript the page requests.

First & Foremost - If you need actual privacy, TOR/VPN, a freshly installed browser with no JavaScript/Flash is enough, and be normal in user behaviour.

If you just want to block trackers - Ghostery is pretty solid - that takes care of some of 2.
I tried PrivacyBadger but it missed all custom trackers and some less known ones..

@ambyrb see replies for limits of this beyond 'it annoys people who look at this'

basically google is loading the page through a frame, so it's acting like a browser within a browser.

Trackers will take the browser URL, which doesn't change, and the browser referrer, which also doesn't change because _your_ browser isn't doing anything.

@GretaBee damn you outliers :(

@phessler sry mate, companies want to make more profitable websites :(

@phessler Unfortunately like no website can afford to roll their own analytics. Amazon won't, but fb and google both have their own analytics solutions which take in use data for expressly that purpose, so they still count as first :/

@phessler it doesn't hide IP, events you trigger onsite like video views, basket adds etc, and third party and first party tracking still works for consistent ID.

So it's pretty minor, it just annoyed me and I thought WT would think it was funny. Maybe that's still useful for you

@phessler WHY

@Technowix @Concerned_Commy nope, this actually made every URL look like translate.google.com, and ruined the referrers too. Utm parameters are more commonly used for tagging referrers but not onsite behavior

@codeawayhaley eh, I don't see much Tor traffic tbh. This is something that actually happened that I was trying to track, which is why I was annoyed :')

@Technowix @Concerned_Commy

Most proxies don't obfuscate urls being sent to trackers tho.

uBlock is cool, haven't tried decentraleyes

@Technowix @Concerned_Commy

Google gets most of it through GA anyway, this weirdly obfuscates the data shown in GA?

ask duckduckgo to make an equivalent? :')

guess who's grumpy AF that someone not only BROWSED like that, but they BOUGHT THINGS like that.

SO
if you really want to fuck with your local data-marketing-analyst/scientist who tracks website data.

browse purely through translate.google.com - it will load pages entirely, your IP will still be visible, but it's a PAIN IN THE ARSE to work out what URLs you visited, how you got there, or what you did on site.

@ananana I'm only on a tiny dose, so I'm surprised to feel this.

But that's good to hear it's not just me. I think I'm about that amount of time too

I'm actually struggling to keep my head up at work, but I slept seven hours..

I think I'm gonna stop taking quetiapine, it seems to be really messing me up on this state. Like I've been on it four months, this is clearly not going away. :(