s7.addthis.com is linked to an Addthis server. Addthis being a marketing and advertisement sales company. This company provides tools to share content on social networks.
This company is also known for using a technique called “canvas fingerprinting” which allows to follow users without any Javascript nor Cookies. This technique will be soon used by at least 5% of the most popular websites.
s7.addthis.com’s technique is about sending instructions to the browser so it creates a hidden image. All these images are different from computer to computer, thus they can easily become a unique identifier. This is why it’s called “canvas fingerprinting”. After this is done, it’s easy to isolate a computer and know the browsing history.
s7.addthis.com server is called specially from popular sites, as a result they take a lot long than usual to charge in some cases they might not open at all.
How to remove s7.addthis.com ?
Reset your browser (if necessary)
If you still see traces of s7.addthis.com after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:
- Open Chrome.
- Click on the three stripes button in the right top corner.
- Select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page, search for Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down once again to the end of the page and click Reset browser settings button.
- Click Reset once more.
- Open Firefox
- Go to the orange Firefox button in the top left.
- Click on Help then Troubleshooting information.
- Click on the Repair Firefox button and confirm.
- Firefox will automatically restart.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on the gear icon
, in the upper right part of your browser, then click again on Internet Options.. - Click on the Advanced tab, then click on the Reset button.
- Enable the checkbox Delete personal Settings and click on the Reset button.
- When Internet Explorer has completed its task, click on the Close button in the confirmation dialogue box.
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- If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
- Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
- If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
- Reboot your computer.
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