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YSK: The Guardian, Wired and The Verge websites has more trackers than other news websites. (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/privacy

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I think those websites are over using trackers in their websites for extra profit with no care for the privacy of their users, I highly recommend avoiding them.

For comparsion:

Update: added Wired and more websites for comparison.

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[–] anamethatisnt 6 points 4 days ago

theguardian.com works just fine without allowing javascript to run at all, and don't seem to load the trackers if you deny cookies. I did get a page popup where they pleaded but didn't force me to subscribe if I allowed the optout domain to run javascript.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

weird, I don't get any ads with uBlock Origin. none on my RSS feed, either.

[–] athairmor 2 points 4 days ago

Worse than Sky!?

I can only guess that Comcast run their own tracking across all of their properties. That might be true of a the rest of them as well. It’s hard to tell from this who’s worse.

The only real solution is to just block all trackers and third-party cookies.

[–] _wizard 1 points 4 days ago

Quite surprised none of my company's sites are here. Guess it helps we aren't national news (we're entertainment, music and local). We have a lot of trackers. If it gets us a dollar, we'll introduce your js.