Hi DavidR,
Could well mean exaggeration on behalf of -whotracks.me.
But a digital ocean proxy would not be free if it was not into user tracking,
and selling data to the highest bidder.
What I see is that with uMatrix and JShelter extensions both active I cannot log-on to forum.avast.com,
because I get a continuing error in the matrix.
Therefore I guess JShelter is still in it's development phase,
and not yet ready to be used by the many
(also it must have a special young category of 5 maintenance developers).
But without such experiments, one should never be the wiser, isn't it.
Big Tech will just defend it's own interests and a lot of tracking and monitoring would go well under the radar and will stay unknown to many an end-user.
You cannot worry all day long in the line of "You should not use Google, because it rids you of almost all of your digital data. Or for instance you cannot be on debian, because you will support Russian Orks (after Tolkien's Orcs)". In other words. One then should be sitting idle all day. But have an open mind and you will learn new facts all of the time. That is why I came to these here forums in the first place. (Thanks to avast forums).
For instance the trustpilot widget mentioned earlier by me one is not prefetched, not crawlable by bots, not indexable with only links being followed. This one will kick up errors from cloudfront in need of another "x-amz-cf-id" for it's tag. Complicated? Yep, but this all goes on under the hood of your browser from
-https://widget.trustpilot.com/trustboxes/53aa8807dec7e10d38f59f32/in (not being blocked).
Fails to load:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
SyncMessage.js:240 [Deprecation] Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check -https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.
browser.runtime.sendSyncMessage @ SyncMessage.js:240
SyncMessage.js:241 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
browser.runtime.sendSyncMessage @ SyncMessage.js:241
SyncMessage.js:255 syncMessage error in
-https://widget.trustpilot.com/trustboxes/53aa8807dec7e10d38f59f32/in: Failed to execute 'send' on 'XMLHttpRequest': Failed to load '-https://[ff00::]/nscl/chrome-extension://ammoloihpcbognfddfjcljgembpibcmb/syncMessage?id=c58101d807.27b8%2Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwidget.trustpilot.com%2Ftrustboxes%2F53aa8807dec7e10d38f59f32%2Fin&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwidget.trustpilot.com%2Ftrustboxes%2F53aa8807dec7e10d38f59f32%2Fin&top=true&msg=%7B%22message%22%3A%22get%20wrapping%20for%20URL%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22
-https%3A%2F%2Fwidget.trustpilot.com%2Ftrustboxes%2F53aa8807dec7e10d38f59f32%2Fin%22%7D'. (response )
browser.runtime.sendSyncMessage @ SyncMessage.js:255
document_start.js:28 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'currentLevel' of 'undefined' as it is undefined.
at configureInjection (document_start.js:28)
at document_start.js:80
VM55:81 audioblocktrue
VM55:130 canvasfont = true
in:1 Unchecked runtime.lastError: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
dD.js:1467
(unknown) Settings loaded...
intercept.js:1 Filter Running...
/favicon.ico:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
in:1 Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received.
DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for chrome-extension://gegfpbhjnhegdnjdkghhnneaocdbbhjp/firefox/browser-polyfill.min.js.map:
HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME
in:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
That is why avast uses polyfill to adopt to all sorts of browsers.
Damian a.k.a. polonus