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 ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Eric Hellman <e...@hellman.net> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:30 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU 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 <li...@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 > > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > m: +1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600