20 Home Pages, 500 Trackers Loaded: Media Succumbs to Monitoring Frenzy

[tchalla]

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/07/20/20-home-pages-500-trackers-loaded-%E2%80%A8media-succumbs-to-monitoring-frenzy/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Monday%20Note%20%23376%20-%2020%20Home%20Pages%3D%3E%20500%20Trackers%3A%20%E2%80%A8Media%20Succumbs%20to%20Monitoring%20Frenzy%20%28FFx%29%20-%20Home%20Automation%20Out%20of%20The%20Closet%20%28JLG%29&utm_campaign=20150720_m126637064_Monday%20Note%20%23376&utm_term=20%20Home%20Pages_2C%20500%20Trackers%20Loaded_3A%20Media%20Succumbs%20to%20Monitoring%20Frenzy

[ablation]

Is it gauche of me to point out that OP's site itself uses at least five trackers, along with obvious UTM tagging in the URL?

[degenerate]

Does anyone know if uBlock Origin's default "EasyPrivacy‎" filter blocks tracking scripts like this? Or is a separate tool like Ghostery actually necessary if I want to stop the trackers from loading?

[orbjuice → degenerate]

You can select to use the hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers list, which blocks loading assets from the IPs in this list:

http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

This is essentially the same as what Ghostery does, without the option to send that information back to Ghostery.