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Comment by 0942v8653 | Hacker News Reader

A more SFW version (took out YouPorn):

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ALdqox/right/

This version connects to squareup.com, twitter.com, www.facebook.com, accounts.google.com, accounts.google.com, plus.google.com, login.skype.com, www.flickr.com, www.spotify.com, www.reddit.com, www.tumblr.com, www.expedia.de, www.dropbox.com, www.amazon.com, www.pinterest.com, www.netflix.com, de.foursquare.com, eu.battle.net, store.steampowered.com, www.academia.edu, stackoverflow.com, accounts.google.com, github.com, medium.com, news.ycombinator.com, carbonmade.com, courses.edx.org, www.spiegel.de, slack.com, www.khanacademy.org, www.paypal.com

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This one actually works for me! The other said that I was using Privacy Badger since it couldn't detect anything. I'm not, but I am using uBlock Origin. This one is only wrong about a couple (it doesn't register, for example, that I am logged in to G+, Khan Academy, Steam, Amazon, PayPal, or Skype).

You can actually have privacy badger black all of this if you play around with the settings.

I mean I think its too much to ask for a tool to be able to block everything right without a little human assistance.

Doesn't uBlock have a filter specifically for privacy (off by default I believe).

I actually had several of the extra filters enabled already, but only once I added "Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List"[0] did uBlock Origin successfully block this technique. I'm not sure whether any of the other filters would accomplish the same result.

After enabling this filter, 0942v8653's version also failed.

[0] https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt

It has several you can choose from in fact, can be enabled in the options pane.

Thanks for the SFW version. Nice to see that uMatrix is doing it's job quite well and as expected.

FWIW, Spotify doesn't seem to get recognized properly. I am definitely logged in and it should show up when all my browser protections are disabled. HN showed up when I disabled everything, but not Spoitfy.

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