Why Do-Not-Track browser settings are useless and what to do about it

Just looking at noScript on the BBS, I’m seeing Quantserve, Scorecard Research, and Google Analytics. I don’t know why they’d need all three on the BBS subdomain which doesn’t run ads anyway.

On the main site (which I never visit), I’m seeing

  • crwdcntrl
  • dtcn
  • facebook
  • Google Analytics
  • quantserve
  • scorecard research
  • stackcommerce and stack sonar (linked with the BB store I’m sure)
  • unrulymedia
  • stats for wordpress

And I’ve blocked 3rd party scripting by default as well as running a pretty hardcore list in uBlock origin so I’m sure a lot of stuff just isn’t showing up because the filtering blocked it way ahead of time.

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