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Every once in a while I see someone talk about how a page loading loads a bunch of tracking elements from various known tracing sites and things like scripts. I don't suppose you could head me in the right direction as to where I could read a bit on how to do this myself? Thanks for any help


A good place to start is https://www.privacytools.io/#browser

Spend some time using uMatrix (much better than NoScript these days). If you're running uMatrix you do not need NoScript.

Some good documentation in regard to uMatrix:

https://www.electricmonk.nl/docs/umatrix_tutorial/umatrix_tu...

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/The-popup-panel

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-par...

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-create-rules-...


Also give https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/ a try


Chrome has developer tools which allow you to see every request a page makes.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/




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