ABP Tracking Filter
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:28 am
I am interested in the ABP Tracking Filter more than either the basic EasyList or EasyElement, so that leads me to a few questions.
My biggest question is why the link to the TrackingFilter is identical to the link to EasyElement. I didn't realize this until I looked at my Preferences in ABP and it looked like I had loaded EasyElement instead of TrackingFilter. So I went back and looked at easylist.adblockplus.org/easylist-modified.htm and easylist.adblockplus.org/adblock_plus.htm where I found that the links were identical when I expected them to be distinct.
Have the two products been rolled into one? Then how can the update times be different on the Last Modified page?
My next big question is if/why the TrackingFilter must be used only as a supplement to EasyList? Will it work without EasyList installed? If I disable chunks (large or small) of EasyList will this compromise corresponding chunks of TrackingFilter? I have currently loaded EasyList but disabled the entire thing. Does that mean that the TrackingFilter will not work properly? What difference could there be between loading something and disabling it, on the one hand, and not even loading it, on the other hand?
Finally a fundamental question that probably should have come first: Am I correct to understand that the function of TrackingFilter is to stop cookies or other tools that are used to observe where I go and how frequently I go there? (Tracking statistics for advertising companies to sell to advertisers - or whoever else wants to snoop on me.)
Thanks for taking the time to help me understand your tools.
- Gordon
My biggest question is why the link to the TrackingFilter is identical to the link to EasyElement. I didn't realize this until I looked at my Preferences in ABP and it looked like I had loaded EasyElement instead of TrackingFilter. So I went back and looked at easylist.adblockplus.org/easylist-modified.htm and easylist.adblockplus.org/adblock_plus.htm where I found that the links were identical when I expected them to be distinct.
Have the two products been rolled into one? Then how can the update times be different on the Last Modified page?
My next big question is if/why the TrackingFilter must be used only as a supplement to EasyList? Will it work without EasyList installed? If I disable chunks (large or small) of EasyList will this compromise corresponding chunks of TrackingFilter? I have currently loaded EasyList but disabled the entire thing. Does that mean that the TrackingFilter will not work properly? What difference could there be between loading something and disabling it, on the one hand, and not even loading it, on the other hand?
Finally a fundamental question that probably should have come first: Am I correct to understand that the function of TrackingFilter is to stop cookies or other tools that are used to observe where I go and how frequently I go there? (Tracking statistics for advertising companies to sell to advertisers - or whoever else wants to snoop on me.)
Thanks for taking the time to help me understand your tools.
- Gordon