Re: Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

From: Devon <decasm_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:13:07 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> It isn't "virtually impossible to block"; mapping addthis.com on the
> client computer to 127.0.0.1 (using /etc/hosts on Linux and Unix
> machines) does a nice job of it. But anyone who uses it really is
> betraying the user's trust.
>
>
I was looking around for a complete set of addthis domains to block and
came across this extensive, up-to-date hosts file. It blocks more than
10,000 domains.

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

/dev
Received on Wed Aug 13 2014 - 17:13:34 EDT