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For this case I'm referring specifically to the website: http://www.golem.de/

I'm connecting to this website using Firefox with javascript disabled:
about:config > javascript.enabled > no

This should block scripts from "googlesyndication.com", which NoScript lists as the only google script on the website to load, but there are still connections made to google servers which I detect using lsof:

sudo lsof -i -P -r | grep 1e1001

Blocking JS does not hinder Google from tracking me here (neither Ghostery or NoScript help). Why is this and how would I suppress Google tracking in this case?

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1 - about 1e100.net

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NoScript's main goal is to block active content to improve security.

If you block scripts from google-analytics.com, a request to connect to that domain can still be made if the data is not javascript. Another source for the observed connections can be (DNS-) prefetching.

In turn this means that blocking scripts using NoScript or Ghostery does not fully hinder advertising companies to track a user.

This is where Request Policy comes in. It enables the user to define rules for cross-domain requests on a per domain basis. While this does give the user a higher degree of privacy control, it can be cumbersome to configure in addition with NoScript.

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