One of the easiest way to NULL OUT all the trackers like Goggle (MAXIMUM EVIL) analytics is to put entries in your Windows hosts files like this
0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
When the Windows IP protocol tries to get DNS info for “www.google-analytics.com”, it will use any entries found in the hosts file first, and then stop looking, not issuing a query to the DNS server configured in the network adapter.
So snoopy javscript embedded in web pages like those on FR (below) always are NO GO, rendered impotent.
script src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js” type=”text/javascript”
urchinTracker();
Good info here for the more technical folks.
For those who are adventurous check out this site:
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
It’s basically like building your own ad blocker.
I midified my hosts file using the instrctions here about 6 years ago, and periodically update to their new blacklist. All in all it kills 90% of ads.
Of course, there are some url variations for ad-sense and others, but those are pretty easy to ferret out and add to the hosts file using web inspector.
If you want to see where all the ads are coming from, just go to dailymail.com and open web inspector. That site is probably the worst offender I’ve ever seen where ad placement and tracking is being employed.