BLOCKING Trackers

Welcome to GuG!  Excellent first questions, by the way.

You can put the code in another section, it should work just fine.  Here's the differences...

If your tracker is in your headline,  you will get a few "false hits", people who didn't actually visit your page.  This happens because your headline not only loads on your profile page, it shows up in search results as well.  So, anyone who does a zip code search in your area, or for your graduating class, etc, will show up on your tracker even if they didn't click on your page.

 If your tracker is in your "About Me" section, it will only be able to track people who actually see your full profile, not just the "this page is set to private" page.  So, you're only able to track your friends if you move it.  However, it shouldn't show up on MySpacescrape if it's in your "About Me".  

Technically, yes, your profile can be deleted if you're caught with a tracker.  However, MySpace doesn't go on tracker hunts, so the only way they would find out is if someone reports you for it.   

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Thanks for letting us know. They got three new domains, see the how to block page. They weren't on the list yet but they are now.

Yeah, that only takes out some of them and myspace won't work properly. If you want the extra security get the extension NoScript. It lets you selectively allow scripts from sources you trust and block the rest.

So I'm using the tracker list, and I am still being tracked. Is it possible that for the trackers that people pay for, the AdBlock will not work? Or maybe we do not have the tracker on the tracker list. Somehow, this person knows I'm tracking them. I even did the "right-click" thingy on their profile to "View page source" to look through the notepad, and I did not see anything for trackers or odd websites. Do paid trackers not show up on these notepads?

Thank you!

If you imported the list that is on the thread then you should not be tracked at all.  Yes it does block the paid trackers.  I use a paid tracker (along with a couple of others) and I get alot more hits then I track.  How does this person track you?  Do you know what tracker they are using?  You also said that you know that they know you are tracking them, well if they view your source code they yes they can see you have trackers.  You can check to see if they have a tracker on some sites - run their myspace ID through it.  But if you want to hit my myspace and then drop me a myspace PM then I can let you know if I tracked you.  Please PM me with the time.  Just click on my name and it will give you my myspace URL 

 

I use mixmap and it just shows you ip addresses.

Thank you Molten! I didn't know about all of that!

Hello smartmom!
Yeah, I don't know what tracker they are using. When I visit their page, the adblock doesn't block anything on their page. Somehow this person knows when I get on their page or if I read their blog. What could it possibly be? And is it possible for them to view my source code if my profile is private to them?

Anyway, I'll hit you up on myspace, but what is PM?

Thank you!

That's what i always do and i pay more attention to the black urls than the red ones.

The red ones are the urls that are blocked. If you're using the filter list from gug to block trackers then when you see red urls they'll probably be trackers.

What i meant was that i'm more interested to find new trackers on a profile than the ones i already know about. If there is a tracker that's not on the list yet it will be one of the black urls so that's what i spend most attention on.

a private message (myspace email) so I know who this is and what time you hit my profile.

edit:  I got your myspace email and replied - I didn't see you at all. 

 

Makes sense . . . I went there prior to opening add-block to check it out . . . Thanks Bottlebob!

How about some of the others such as extreme-dm.com and statcounter.com? I didn't visit these sites after I opened add-block. Extreme showed 20 hits, and stat showed 10 hits.

BTW, thank you . . . I'm picking up on the lingo, but still a little shaky . . .
Do you recommend always using Firefox with blocker or is explorer okay with blocker? Hope I worded that well.

Thanks Smartmom . . . I added Firefox with add-on, and uploaded the common myspace trackers.

Next, under "tools" then "options" . . . Should I able or disable anything in particular?

HI when you add this does this mean when i go onto peoples pages they cant track me>?

When I click on AdBlock Plus from Tools on my navigation bar it is listed under the filters. It shows hits when I view some myspace profiles.

Uhhh, yeah, all of those words are there! I feel like a dummy! No wonder "or" had so many hits!

Thanks!!!

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