Hacker News Reader

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).

View on HN

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com