Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
Ditto that... and, is it just a placebo effect or am I actually seeing Fire Fox is even loading pages faster now that I blocked everything? It feel like I'm not getting those delays as those widgets are downloading their JS and talking to their motherships in the background. On Tue Dec 13 15:3

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-15 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
Ditto that... and, is it just a placebo effec?t or am I actually seeing Fire Fox is even loading pages faster now that I blocked everything. It feel like I'm not getting those delays as those widgets are downloading their JS and talking to their motherships in the background. On Tue Dec 13 15:

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Thanks for introducing me to Ghostery - it's opened up a whole new world of tracking that I had no idea was going on. A lot of sites use Google Analytics of course and I'm not inclined to block that since I've used it myself and found it very useful. I don;t believe it keeps anything more intrusi

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-13 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 12.12.2011 at 15:59 Uhr -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: Wild turkey guess off the top of my head: Some "web bugs" as Jacque put it do not like being blocked and try to re-establish themselves, and they are what is leaking. Bob That would be too simple. Unfortunately, the problem is sa

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
A long time ago I noticed a memory leak, albeit a small one in Safari. Later I discovered it was a known problem, but it wasn't fixed for several versions thereafter. Maybe Apple thought it was so small that it didn't merit attention. By the time they fixed it I had given up and went with Firef

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/12/11 5:26 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Has anyone noticed a memory leak when using Ghostery in Safari? Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Safari 5.1.2. When Ghostery is inactive, the memory stays low for days. With Ghostery, I seem to have a slow leakage which accelates at some point. It might not be Gh

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wild turkey guess off the top of my head: Some "web bugs" as Jacque put it do not like being blocked and try to re-establish themselves, and they are what is leaking. Bob On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > On 03.08.2011 at 10:52 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 03.08.2011 at 10:52 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: I've been using NoScript for years. Last week I discovered Ghostery. It lets you know what sites are tracking you and allows you to block the trackers. I have been appalled by what's been going on without my knowledge. Some sit