BTW, EBSCOhost (used in a few libraries, I think) has AddThis widgets. I suppose if you use their API you could avoid that.
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Jeff Karlsen
Librarian & Library Department Chair
Sacramento City College
916-558-2583
www.scc.losrios.edu/library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan Gomez
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I agree. What was prompted as a discussion of protecting one's patrons has turned into a discussion of protecting oneself.
Joshua Gomez
Library Systems Programmer
University of Southern California
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From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Eric Hellman <eric_at_HELLMAN.NET>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?
> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET> wrote:
>
> Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
>> On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>
>>> *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear about it.
>>
>> I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.
>>
>> Related: on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1], which I hope will be a success. At home I use Disconnect [2], which blocks entire domains. It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like AddThis, but cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
>> [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger [2]
>> https://disconnect.me/disconnect
>
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