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Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?
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David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

Where did that "notice" originate? Which process complained?
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David,

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected?

You're not *infected*, its your webbrowser running some javascript it has retrieved from the website you are visiting.(1)

If it is, how can I clean it?

Navigate to another webpage (or close the webbrowser).


(1) The script gathers information about what you are doing on the webpage (where your mouse is, what stuff is (partially) visible and more of that),
and sends it back to the server - so that ad-slingers can bid for some "targetted" advertising space.

Something that here in Europe would violate the GDPR and could cost them dearly.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> Wrote in message:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

<https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/la-times-cipa-settlement>

That piece says 'installed'. Your notice (from whom?) apparantly
said 'infected'.

I suspect 'used on their website' is more accurate.
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"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote in news:10njl29$3mbbb$1@dont- email.me:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

I've not had any issues with FireFox. All scripting options and client side services are disabled. The only extension is AdBlock Free. Cookies are disabled.

YouTube is a joy to use. No ads at all. Only one site was annoying, SalemNewsMedia, as AdBlock needed to allow some custom sound stuff to run for the site to be usable.

Very happy with FF and will be sorry to see it go when this aging machine finally dies.
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On 2/23/2026 11:57 PM, Dave Royal wrote:

"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> Wrote in message:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate
Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

<https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/la-times-cipa-settlement>

That piece says 'installed'. Your notice (from whom?) apparantly
said 'infected'.

I suspect 'used on their website' is more accurate.

"Infected" is my term. The notice I received was from the lawsuit
settlement attorney. Its actual words were:

the [LA Times] installed and used three trackers [named] on Website
visitors' internet browsers

If they did indeed install trackers on my browser, I consider this to be
an infection.
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David E. Ross
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On 2/24/2026 12:05 AM, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate
Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

Where did that "notice" originate? Which process complained?

The notice was a postcard from Kroll Settlement Administation LLC. The
case was Mirmalek v. Los Angeles Times Communication, LLC. My research indicates this is indeed a real lawsuit. However, all the information I
can find is about the legal issues and not the software issues.
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"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> Wrote in message:

On 2/23/2026 11:57 PM, Dave Royal wrote:

"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> Wrote in message:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate
Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it? >>>

<https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/la-times-cipa-settlement>

That piece says 'installed'. Your notice (from whom?) apparantly
said 'infected'.

I suspect 'used on their website' is more accurate.

"Infected" is my term. The notice I received was from the lawsuit
settlement attorney. Its actual words were:

the [LA Times] installed and used three trackers [named] on Website
visitors' internet browsers

If they did indeed install trackers on my browser, I consider this to be
an infection.

My *guess* is that the website installed cookies, and all that
'cookies' seems to encompass these days, such as persistent
website storage and service workers. These are things you can
delete using Firefox's tools. Cache too.

Google the named trackers and find out if there's more to it than that.
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On 2/24/2026 1:47 AM, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.31.0 esr

I received a notice that my browsing the Web site of the Los Angeles
Times might have resulted in one or more hidden trackers infecting
Firefox. The trackers are TripleLift Tracker, GumGum, and AudienceRate Tracker.

How can I tell if my Firefox is infected? If it is, how can I clean it?

google response:

How to See If They Are Active
Because these scripts load dynamically, you won't find them in your "Add/Remove Programs" list. To detect them:

Check Browser Cookies: Look for cookies named "TLUID" (TripleLift
User ID) in your browser's privacy settings.
Use Privacy Extensions: Tools like Ghostery or Privacy Badger
provide a real-time dashboard showing exactly which trackers (including
GumGum
and TripleLift
) are active on the page you are currently viewing.
Developer Tools: On any website, press F12, go to the Network tab,
and refresh the page. Search for "triplelift
," "gumgum
," or "audiencerate
" to see if your browser is sending requests to their servers.

How to Remove or Block Them
Since they are not local files, you "remove" them by clearing your
browsing data and preventing them from loading again:

Clear Browsing Data: Go to your browser's settings and clear your
Cookies and Site Data. This deletes any existing identifiers they have
stored on your device.
Install a Trusted Blocker: Use uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger to automatically block these scripts from running in the future.
Use a Privacy-First Browser: Browsers like Brave or Firefox (set to "Strict" tracking protection) block these third-party trackers by default.
TripleLift
Opt-Out: You can specifically request the deletion of your data
through the TripleLift Cookie Deletion Request.
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