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I hate giving details December 20, 2014 23:21

Ghostery on Firefox wrongly reports Google Font API calls as Google Analytics.

Hi, Ghostery on Firefox (using OSX yosemite) has been erroneously reporting the presence of Google Analytics on Wordpress pages that use Google Font calls.

I am now using FF 34 (latest), but this has been happening for some time. The Ghostery for Safari does not do this.

As an aside, Google Fonts *ARE* another tracking mechanism (a vague one as caching interferes), but I would rather like to see that identified separately as it would flag up practically ANY Wordpress site..
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    Eric P. Scott December 21, 2014 00:55
    Dear Mr./Ms. I hate giving details:

    Details are everything.

    We are not going to follow up on this unless you give us the exact version numbers (latest doesn't mean anything here!) of Firefox and Ghostery for Firefox, Safari and Ghostery for Safari, and, most importantly, publicly-accessible web addresses (URLs) where your particular issue occurs. There are any number of possible explanations for the behavior you're seeing, and you haven't provided anywhere near enough information for someone else to attempt to reproduce your situation.
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