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The amount of scripts on a web page is up 800% from that just 8 years ago.
Yes, spying, tracking is fairly legal here in the US.
If you keep many open browsers with lots of tabs, it does not take long to slow your machine worse than a CAD program with a large 3D file.
If many have Flash or PDF's, it's a big whammy.
For what CSS/HTML/jpg/js ????
The scripts are the enemy. Even most of those facebook icons on pages are trackers. Tracking you when you are not signed in or on their pages.
So much of this stuff is going on, it has been beyond belief.
I admire the EU for it's initial stand against this and for user privacy, but probably does not go far enough.
But, if you are good at recognizing some of these scripts, you might try NOSCRIPT for the firefox browser.
You can enable the scripts one by one or by temp for the tab or temp for the site.
Just seeing and understanding what some of them do is a learning experience if you have never studied them.
Many websites have made much of their site un-displayable without some of them. All in all after some time of getting use to it, it is worth the time to run this. Trick is to know which ones you need to allow the pages to work/run and leaving everything else blocked.
Get rid of FLASH on your computer. Much of the autoplaying video's are in flash. Some will revert to other formats but much will just disappear.
The adblockers have been made a bit moot from what they once were. But still effective.
I am still suspicious that there is some coordination of some CO's and Google and Mozilla to make some of these tracking attempt blocks ineffective by not displaying the pages at all.
But sometimes that is just one more 'SCRIPT' in the webpage.
To bad for Android which is a fine tuned tracking machine for at least google and those that know how to hack the tracking features.
If any of you are running JetPack in your WP, know they are harvesting your visitors by tracking.
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