David Gerard wrote:
Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web
bugs in the
JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole.
Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the
loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp uses a web bug
that isn't Google), perhaps at least listing the sites somewhere
centrally viewable?
- d.
Make a filter of google analytics (plus all other known web bugs).
When it matches, make an admin look at that user contributions (you can
just log it and have the admin review it daily or make a complex mail
notification system).
Even if you blocked it, the admin can bypass any filter. A sysadmin
reviewing the code added cannot be fooled so easily.
Taking advantage of this thread. Take a look at
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
Can those images be moved to a server under our control (WMF,
Toolserver...)?
Potentially, those systems they could be retrieving the search queries
and ips of all visitors via the referer.
Originally, some of those images were hosted by WMF-FR but was stopped
because it overloaded their server.