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uBlock blocks these for me (note these are domains, so it's probably blocking more than 1 script from some of these):

addthis.com, adnxs.com, bing.com, crwdcntrl.net, disqus.com, disqusads.com, doubleclick.net, exelator.com, flagcounter.com, google-analytics.com, google.com, googlesyndication.com, statcounter.com

Allowing them triggers blocking another 2.

addthisedge.com, adsnative.com

Something focusing more on privacy would probably also pick up the 2 separate translators on the page that your already mentioned, along with pippio.com whatever that is.


I can imagine Disqus and AddThis are abusing my page, but then I browse the web with temporary cookies so it doesn't bother me. ;-)

Actually if you really value your privacy you should never have permanent cookies (and you should have browser disk cache disabled as well). Oh, and site data (another form of cookies) must be cleaned on browser shutdown as well.


Weird. I'm in the UK, and just chose the 'I want to cancel the order' option.

The email confirming my request and the email confirming the refund had been accepted literally arrived in the same minute.


The "I want to cancel the order" option is only available in the EU and a few other countries (like Taiwan) for up to 14 days after your purchase, but not in the US.



I have uBlock and Ghostery enabled in Safari, and this site didn't pick up either.


Mobile is exactly where you don't want to rely on this kind of fingerprinting. Especially on iOS, it's a platform with only one rendering engine and no plugins.

Here's what it managed to get from my iPhone 6[1]. This would be the same 'fingerprint' as virtually every iPhone 6 user in the UK.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/IkccCei.jpg


"Buy a new computer so you can run our over engineered adverts properly."

At the very least adblockers will catch up.


As I said in other comments: that's fine. And we will improve our ads even more over time.


As a story it was good, but as a game the backlash it received was fully justified.

It reused the same areas and assets to the extreme. You literally spent all your time running around the same 5 or 6 dungeon maps with different entrances and exits. The combat was repetitive and the constant waves of enemies appearing out of thin air removed any tactical positioning or clever conservation of abilities.


There were rumours the PS3 would use single use discs that locked themselves to a particular PS3 before it launched.

http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/08/playstation-3-wont-play-us...


By "similar" I meant a reputable entity being confident. Edge has reputation to care about and inside sources as well so this rumor is very different from a random blogger's speculation.


I'm sure advertisers would still pay the same rates for junk mail that nobody sees, and it wouldn't reduce the value of the junk mail to those advertisers.


Be careful with that, I had them do the same thing to me (after I asked them not to) and the goodwill suddenly ended after a few months. Took hours to get it sorted and refunded, and to top it off they put the flaming restriction back on!

Edit: I just checked, and it looks like it was removed again at some point, possibly when I renewed the contract? Ah well.


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