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This journal entry describes ways in which people you know may be monitoring the way you use LJ. How often you read their journal, what friends groups you define, and so on.
It's done with what are called "web bugs" - tiny images served from special servers that record this information. You can block the servers that serve the web bugs, but they can always create more servers, so it's a game of "whack-a-mole".
Today I found out about a setting in Firefox that blocks *all* web-bug based tracking, from all websites to all websites, permanently. No longer will people be able to monitor you in this way.
Go to the URL bar and type "about:config". Select the setting "network.http.sendRefererHeader". If it has the value "2", change it to "1". That's it.
Technical details
I'll be setting this on all my browsers ASAP.
It's done with what are called "web bugs" - tiny images served from special servers that record this information. You can block the servers that serve the web bugs, but they can always create more servers, so it's a game of "whack-a-mole".
Today I found out about a setting in Firefox that blocks *all* web-bug based tracking, from all websites to all websites, permanently. No longer will people be able to monitor you in this way.
Go to the URL bar and type "about:config". Select the setting "network.http.sendRefererHeader". If it has the value "2", change it to "1". That's it.
Technical details
I'll be setting this on all my browsers ASAP.
