Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
Actually you can also dispense with ibpxl.com.
I was about to say the same thing - it serves no other purpose than tracking.
If in doubt, I look at the page code, and if I see something that's just included and seems to serve no relevant purpose, I let NoScript block it. Doubly so if I see any code obfuscation - attempts to make the code unreadable to try to obscure its purpose or what it's accessing.
The ibpxl code is not the worst I've seen, but it's playing tricks with "escaped" HTML codes, trying to download and execute
another,
much longer tracking script . That one has 436 lines of code, sets loads of cookies, and invokes many other 3rd-party tracking scripts -
15 at a quick count, maybe more.
There really is no valid justification for this quantity and quality of tracking. And you wonder why tools such as NoScript as so popular, when a single PPrUNe page view can get you tracked in at least 16 different ways? I make no apology for blocking scripts and ads - the whole tracking business has gone way past the "supporting PPRuNe" concept.