How to Fully Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should

Of course, the fact that Google Tag Manager exists in the first place is also a problem.

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… and Palantir which will, shortly, be so tightly intertwined with the US government they will have the full combination of Government + Private Industry spying. They will be the black-ops mercenary for digital tracking in the US.

[Edit: And who names their company after an evil orb connected to the power of the ultimate embodiment of evil (Sauron) ???]

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well, switch off javascript and watch this site!

i followed advice to default to javascript disabled.

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Yeah, I know. The author did mention that lots of websites wouldn’t work without it. It’s unfortunate.

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yes, that’s what i am doing right now!

not much left right?

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Reminder that there’s always the nuclear solution (AS number blocking) against digital surveillance companies: A guide on how to completely block Fb and other companies

It’s one of my favorites, along with Pi-hole, NoScript, uBO, Privacy Badger, and Blokada5 on degoogled Android. :slight_smile: [EDIT: and my VPN provider’s filter lists.]

Google, unfortunately, has so many different AS numbers, that it would be difficult to find the right one(s) to block and still be able to get through gatekeeping at millions of sites.

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I have just sent the case to my local data protection authority.

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So currently there is no solution for Google?

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against 1st party there no protection. no pi-hole, no pfDNSBlocker.

tell your data protection officer.

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Unless you want to run numerous blocking services for the whole list at https://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=google&commit=Search

Or try each one to find the ones that are worth blocking. :wink:

Personally, I just block Google Tag Manager in browsers, Pi-hole, my VPN’s blocklist, and Blokada5 (on degoogled Android), as well as other Google nastiness I come across, and which doesn’t interfere with various websites’ functioning/access.

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NoScript.

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the HTML tag or the AddOn?

first, plain HTML, yes (less surveillance).
second, the Addon, no!

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I was referring to the Add-on. Start with all scripts disabled, then allow only the ones you want. Is that ineffective?

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GTM is injecting
<script src="https://3rdparty-server/3rd_party_myscripts.js"></script>
can be blocked!

or GTM is injecting the content of “3rd_party_myscripts.js”
than its coming from 1st party server.

its impossible to block this!

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Depressing!

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if you want a working website its pants down.

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Reviewing my own OP, that was, in fact, explained in the second link:

…Google is now driving Tag Manager into the first-party domain, switching from third-party to first-party cookie usage…

I guess it didn’t sink into my brain. Lol.

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i am currently doubting the accuracy of the articles.

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How about this?

General web browser:

  • disable javascript universally (uBO)
  • disable service-workers (as a fallback measure)
  • re-enable javascript per website if and as necessary; service-workers still blocked via about:config)
  • block all cookies, then allow necessary cookies ad hoc
  • delete all cookies on exit

Separate web browser (in my case, mainly for financial account logins):

  • whatever doesn’t disrupt things so much as to prevent site use

Plus all of one’s usual privacy and anti-fingerprinting tools.

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Perhaps the only true remedy is legislative.

Beyond that, because government is often part of the problem rather than part of the solution, gemini ? However I must admit that I myself have not yet dabbled in gemini.

Just for fun I am blocking a number of subnets that are ostensibly part of the Google cloud. It is interesting to see which web sites and functions immediately break - and to measure how much I really want to use those - and how infrequently I will use those when I have the inconvenience of closing applications and lowering shields beforehand in order to use those.

This is of course on top of “PiHole” and PrivacyBadger.

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