REQ: Google Analytics filter/block
I was not sure where to place this request, whether Tor Browser or TorBrowserButton would be best. BTW, considering Tor Browser has been known as Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) for a long time, does it not seem a bit confusing to now call TorButton, Tor Browser Button (TBB)?
Currently the easiest way to prevent Google Analytics (GA) tracking from within Firefox is by using the NoScript Surrogate Scripts (SS) feature, as far as I understand. However, SS is only functional on pages and sites where JS is blocked. One will see a Google Analytics entry in the NoScriopt taskbar flyout. That means TBB does not use NoScript SS, and thus does not block Google Analytics tracking (AFAIK), because TBB ships NoScipt to globally allow JS by default.
The more cumbersome (and less elegant?) solution seems to be using AdBlock Plus (with EasyList) and Greasemonkey (with custom script). I use this solution for TBB when I allows JS via. NoScript. This solution seems to work well, however, it may still break a few obscure video sites that use GA atypically. There is an easy solution for sites that do break: simply whitelist the sites via. ABP (with Easylist) and Greasemonkey script.
The "solution" offered by Google, their opt-out add-on, is no solution at all (big surprise there!).
I do realise Tor Project is heading toward anonymity by design for Tor Browser, and in doing so I hope a solution can found for GA so one doesn't need to rely on add-ons (besides maybe Tor Browser Button). Unless there is a solution already in the works?
Please feel free to tell me I'm wrong, if I am. Thanks.
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Username: joyton