********Security Alert!********
For those who are interested in stopping Google from tracking all you see and do on the Web....here is some info and a weapon.
I recently installed a Firefox add on called Ghostery. This little jewel alerts you about the web bugs, ad networks and widgets on every page on the web with a small popup on the page you are viewing. Since installing it, I have noticed this popping up on every page I go to:
So I did some research and found that this insidious little bastard is a Java script that is initiated by code placed within the web site's html.
The obvious answer is to disable Java script...however, this did not work for me as I still received the pop up and...good or bad...I need to have Java script enabled.
I then turned to an old friend who has been running in the background on all my PCs for years...The Proxomitron.
This is a Proxy server that runs on my PC and allows me to shunt all connections through it on port 8080. I can also edit the Ad blocking Killfile it uses and in doing so can add this tidbit:
[^.]+.google-analytics.com/
Now when I visit webpages, the Google Analytics pop up no longer appears as Ghostery sees nothing happening because the Google Analytics website has been blocked by The Proxomitron.
This is easy to setup but if anyone is interested in doing it and needs an assist, just Freepmail me.
Of course, this is a Windows related fix. I haven't tried Ghostery in Firefox on my Linux Mint OS yet but I imagine that the Google Analytics will appear there as well. I'll have to figure out how to deal with it there later.