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Offline polonus

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See how you are tracked by GA...
« on: July 19, 2010, 09:40:27 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Checked on a test page for this, and I show the results below in a gif image,

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Re: See how you are tracked by GA...
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 10:03:12 PM »
I don't allow google-analytics in noscript, though I don't care that much about so called tracking, I'm more concerned about any loss of dial-up bandwidth.
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Re: See how you are tracked by GA...
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 10:07:34 PM »
Hi forum friends,

I am not that concerned about tracking also, it happens anyway, but I wanted to show the underlying mechanism to the users to understand more about the secret life of their browser....

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