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Comment by evenhash | original | HTML Can Do That
[−]evenhash · 2026-08-20 Thu 18:32 UTC · link
One thing you notice running NoScript is how prevalent Google is.

Even if a site doesn’t monetize with Google Ads, there’s a decent chance it’s pulling a script from ajax.googleapis.com, and Google still knows that you visited the site from the Referer of the script download.

[−]account42 · 2026-08-21 Fri 11:56 UTC · link
And lucky for Google, browser vendors (including Google) even decided that caches shouldn't work cross origin so this request needs to be made for every site even if you already visited another site that used the same resource.