Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
I work for an analytics company, this will affect my snippet – I don&#x27;t think it is a big deal, but I&#x27;m going to benchmark it on a few sites. From what is described here, it may actually help us. When folks throw tons of tags into their site, we&#x27;re all competing against each-other as well as the site&#x27;s own loading – it makes sense to prioritize the site&#x27;s rendering.<p>I think of this as no more invasive than pre-caching stuff in a page when you see links that are likely to be clicked, or any other browser optimization.<p>I may be pounding my fist later if the results don&#x27;t look great, but ultimately, I think Mozilla&#x27;s heart is in the right place.<p>I can think of tons of ways to work around this if I thought it was a real issue, I don&#x27;t. People who want to block analytics, trackers, ad networks, etc... know how, and this doesn&#x27;t feel like it is targeted at those people, or even squarely at the tracking pixels.<p>HN-pre-emptive-defend-myself:
My company doesn&#x27;t share or sell data with third parties (it&#x27;s in our TOS – and could obviously change in some Orwellian future, but we&#x27;d have to update the TOS), it&#x27;s the customer&#x27;s data, they can use it in the same way they&#x27;d use any other data they collect. We don&#x27;t do cross-domain tracking, or aggregate behavioral information across customers, and the way we&#x27;ve built it, it makes it pretty hard to tie any two visitors together across sites if you were to hypothetically acquire our dataset. We&#x27;re also working on building tools to comply with GDPR and wipe out data per-request. Anyways, I think a lot of very bad actors have made the space have a bad reputation and I don&#x27;t blame anyone for blocking everything, or even for hating my company, or generally all analytics.