Re: [projectvrm] The Verge vs. Ad & Tracking Blockers

[Doc Searls < >]

I just added a response to that piece in Debugging Adtech Assumptions: 
http://bit.ly/1Ojac1n 

FWIW, Privacy Badger broke the page for me too on Firefox, and I couldn’t 
figure how to adjust the sliders to fix it. But maybe that’s The Verge’s idea.

Doc

> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:26 PM, Don Marti 
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> Meanwhile _my_ copy of Privacy Badger on Firefox is
> fine with that article. (Every user's instance will
> "learn" a different set of trackers to block.)
> 
> Firefox tracking protection is blocking something on
> the page, too, so maybe that's it.
> 
> begin Steven Groves quotation of Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 08:34:46AM -0400:
>> 
>> Love the irony... maybe they're doing research and needed to stage all the
>> trackers so they can talk about them.
>> 
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>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Doc Searls 
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>> wrote:
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>>> See <
>>> http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-apple-vs-google-vs-facebook-and-the-slow-death-of-the-web
>>>> .
>>> 
>>> With PrivacyBadger enabled, the page won’t load. With PrivacyBadger
>>> disabled, the page does load — full of tracking jive, sez Ghostery:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It’s 12:40am here (Prague) and I need to hit the sack, or I’d say more.
>>> 
>>> Doc
>>> 
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