I'm using Firefox 4 with the popular NoScript-Addon installed.
When I try to access StackOverflow, there is a red bar displayed at the top:
Meta Stack Overflow requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load.
To get rid of this bar, I have to whitelist the domain googleapis.com in NoScript. But I don't want to do this, as this will allow Google to track what I'm visiting on SO (by HTTP referrer, cookies and so on). Also there is no way I could whitelist this for SO only - any other website could use googleapis.com after that.
In short: Is there any way to use SO without googleapis.com?
...this will allow Google to track what I'm visiting on SO (by HTTP referrer, cookies and so on).
Are you sure? This sounds a little bit paranoid. As I can see it the browser will pull in the dependency without saying what it is for. I'd be surprised if Google would receive any other information then55.126.77.89 requested the jQuery file
.Expires
header:Thu, 24 May 2012 13:25:38 GMT
. Unless you force a refresh, no new request will be made until then. It's not possible for Google to track your movements on the site (or any other site that uses Google's hosted jQuery) this way.referer
header when the browser pulls the file, thoughabout:config
settingnetwork.http.sendRefererHeader
to0
will kill the header (not sure with fire or not).