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While you're complaining about Google, how about you fix your website to stop giving away your viewers' data to third-party advertising/technology companies? A cursory glance at the source reveals:

- tumblr.com

- googleapis.com

- netdna.bootstrapcdn.com

- ogp.me

- google-analytics.com

- yimg.com

- nol.yahoo.com

Think you could tone that down?



Jeeze, you think he can just do all that typing for free? He has to pay the bills somehow. Unlike those greedy corporations! </sarcasm>


How does using CDNs to load jQuery, font awesome, and some google fonts give away viewer data to third parties? I'm not sure about the tumblr stuff but I don't see how loading these scripts is malicious...


It is no different than linking to any third-party / external resource. Specifically, profiling information is delivered across the referrer and user-agent to name a few.

There is a more complete discussion on the network security stackexchange group[0].

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38415/privacy-ri...


The tumblr stuff is because the website is hosted on tumblr (as can be seen by the feed at the bottom of the post).




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