I recently white-listed Google Analytics in NoScript so that I can see search results on GooglePlay, but now it white-listed on every website. Although I have the Do Not Track option enabled in Firefox plus Disconnect, Ublock Origin and Request Policy are installed. So do I have any reason to be concerned about Google tracking me? So does Google honor Do Not Track?
I think these companies will only "honor" something if a court decides so. With this in mind, you could use Google's services only on a Firejailed Tor, making it so that all changes disappear after you close the browser (with "firejail --private-home=" command). I do this with Facebook and Google. I don't mind them tracking my PC since it's been siting on my room for several years now, but I wouldn't want them sniffing on my other traffic and/or passwords, this firejailed browser has no configuration at all (apart from a few addons).
I'm concerned by default about Google tracking. As for Do Not Track, even if they say they do honor it, would you trust them?
Well I don't trust Tor mainly because I don't know to properly configure it securely. But I just installed Privacy Badger and it configured to block Google Analytics. So hopefully that reduces some of the Google tracking. Good point Nebulus.
Instead of globally whitelisting via noscript, you can open RequestPolicy preferences and create a narrow rule in the Origins-To-Destinations pref tab. Allow to google-analytics.com from only play.google.com (or, perhaps a bit broader: from google.com)
It appears that RequestPolicy is already doing that, so I guess I have nothing to worry about. Thanks.
You said uBlockO is installed. I'm fairly sure it blocks GA by default, BUT, I stumbled on some articles few days ago about google analytics in general (all the options that site operators can set it to gather, etc.). I'm going to post another about websites I found - one discussed on Mozilla's family of sites, they allow google analytics to set a 1st party cookie - I assume if you login ?(the cookie the blogger meant is usually called "_ga" - see it in Storage Inspector_ Shft + F9 ). One GA cookie was blocked (one blog described differences), but another wasn't - partly because addons like noscript, uBo, adblock & many addons - don't work on Mozilla sites. One blog gave demo, where the _ga cookie was set on Mozilla site (Mozilla's privacy policy says they allow it), but that the _ga FIRST party cookie was actually accessed on other sites, based on last accessed time stamps for the _ga cookie, AFTER he left Mozilla's site & never returned. Thus claiming google could access that cookie on other sites. I generally follow it, but I'm not an expert, which is why I'll post the links & see if anyone can confirm or disprove what the blogger showed.
