OMG

lighthouse64 · Postby **lighthouse64** » Wed May 27, 2015 3:27 pm

MY GOSH! Why does this place have so many 3rd party trackers?!?! I just newly got lightbeam for firefox and then bam! I see a lot of trackers. Why do we have this? Or is it because of the things we post here... Like photos being related to imgur etc.

But anyways here you go with the screenie

aero · Postby **aero** » Wed May 27, 2015 4:33 pm

These are the services that people use to share screenshots. They only do it to track hot linking like everyone does here. Just set up Adblock to block the trackers, but if you do you won't see a lot of images people share.

lighthouse64 · Postby **lighthouse64** » Wed May 27, 2015 11:33 pm

AeroMatter wrote:These are the services that people use to share screenshots. They only do it to track hot linking like everyone does here. Just set up Adblock to block the trackers, but if you do you won't see a lot of images people share.

Ah. I see. (I kinda had that sense) But I wonder why PGE is there

XerX · Postby **XerX** » Thu May 28, 2015 12:42 am

Because...Wohlstand shares screenshots from his website...

Wohlstand · Postby **Wohlstand** » Thu May 28, 2015 4:42 am

XerX wrote:Because...Wohlstand shares screenshots from his website...

Yea, I usually host screenshots and files myself to provide more convenient access to files (instead of an ads bunch, return a file to download)

lighthouse64 · Postby **lighthouse64** » Thu May 28, 2015 6:05 am

Wohlstand wrote:
XerX wrote:Because...Wohlstand shares screenshots from his website...
Yea, I usually host screenshots and files myself to provide more convenient access to files (instead of an ads bunch, return a file to download)

Yeah. Makes sense.

(No wonder why I lag so much more when I go see a lot of images!)

Kevsoft · Postby **Kevsoft** » Thu May 28, 2015 8:39 am

If you really worry about "trackers" I would recommend installing the browser plugin "Ghostery". It is a plugin which shows you the trackers on a website and lets you disable them.

Or let is explain from this video:

lighthouse64 · Postby **lighthouse64** » Thu May 28, 2015 11:04 am

Kevsoft wrote:If you really worry about "trackers" I would recommend installing the browser plugin "Ghostery". It is a plugin which shows you the trackers on a website and lets you disable them.

Or let is explain from this video:

I have ghostery :p