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CloudFlare isn't a tracker; it's more like a CDN with tracking capabilities. You need to be very careful with this one.
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Alexei March 07, 2012 14:00Could break a lot of stuff? Could you elaborate? Do you have some more page examples?EditDeleteRemove
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It appears to be similar to akamai cdn, i havent seen it used widely yet. Will enter locally for tracking.
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CloudFlare tracking cookie: used on sites served by the CloudFlare network (hundreds of thousands of sites)
Format: __cfduid=db81d067fe9ae308540809d4c3d79c6d61340394794
(the alphanumeric value is random, of course)
Possible breakage: users blocking this cookie may see extra pages verifying that they are a legitimate visitor before being able to access some websites.
Some sites with this cookie: www.cloudflare.com www.teampr0xy.net www.founderly.com (hundreds of thousands more)
Information about CloudFlare's cookies: http://www.cloudflare.com/security-po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
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It's used for tracking so i guess it should be blocked..?
Tracking script:
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That script is actually *NOT* a tracking script - it's used to compress resources such as images and css. To my knowledge CloudFlare doesn't use javascript to track at all. However, they do use methods like hidden images for analytics - take a look at http://www.jchulce.com/cdn-cgi/cl/c6f... for example. But most of their analytics are implemented server-side, so if you access the served website at all it will be counted. The methods that they use cannot detect information that many other, more invasive analytics companies can such as time spent on site, outbound links, and software/hardware specs.
They claim to only share the collected user information, such as ip addresses, for security/anti-spam purposes as shown in their privacy policy. Nonetheless it is still tracking and distribution to a third party. I'm not sure how the Ghostery team will feel about this.
I write this as a customer of CloudFlare, so I am aware of what they do. -
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