Gstatic by Google (gstatic.com)
“gstatic.com is a domain owned and used by Google for loading content from their CDN.” – Source
Ethical design violations
(Learn more about Ethical Design.)
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tracker
Monetises you.
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web bug
Invisible tracking pixel.
Block rule
Block cookies to gstatic on Google pages. (Not blocking completely so as not to kill the patient on sites infected with Google tumors like maps, recaptcha, etc.)
- trigger:
- url-filter: gstatic.com
- action:
- type: block-cookies
Block metric.gstatic.com (tracking pixel)
metric.gstatic.com
Prevalence
Pandemic: found on 35.7% of surveyed sites (2604 instances observed).
Notes
- Uses tracking pixels on some sites. Source
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