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A few websites that are disguising third-party trackers: Fox News: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnews.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnew

A few websites that are disguising third-party trackers: Fox News: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnews.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnews.com CNN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/cnn.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/cnn.com BBC: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/bbc.co.uk https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/bbc.co.uk WebMD: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/webmd.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/webmd.com ESPN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/espn.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/espn.com Ars Technica: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/arstechnica.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/arstechnica.com Go.com (Disney): https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/go.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/go.com Washington Post: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/washingtonpost.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/washingtonpost.com Walmart: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/walmart.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/walmart.com Weather.com: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/weather.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/weather.com Apple: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/apple.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/apple.com NFL: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/nfl.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/nfl.com T-Mobile: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/t-mobile.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/t-mobile.com State Farm: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/statefarm.com https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/statefarm.com

temp112719 7y ago
Seems like most of these use Adobe Experience Cloud. I'm guessing they offer some kind of HOWTO to set it up as disguised. Good on Adobe for keeping it up. Flash wasn't enough to fuck the internet up for years.
- nextdns 7y ago
  Yes, for Adobe Experience Cloud, see: https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interface/ec-cookies/cookies-first-party.html https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interfa...
  - VWWHFSfQ 7y ago
    > In order to circumvent tracking limitations imposed by browsers and programs, you can implement first-party cookies. Well at least they're forthcoming about knowing they're intentionally circumventing users privacy settings.
3xblah 7y ago
If we request each of those pages, e.g., foxnews.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, etc. with a simple HTTP client (no JavaScript engine) and we look at the subdomains that appear in each page, we see that in each case the tracker links are absent. The requests to the trackers rely on JavaScript being enabled. What happens when JavaScript is disabled? Further, we can easily list the subdomains that do appear in the page and, assuming they are being used to host content that we want, we can "whitelist" them in our zone file.

temp112719 7y ago

Seems like most of these use Adobe Experience Cloud. I'm guessing they offer some kind of HOWTO to set it up as disguised. Good on Adobe for keeping it up. Flash wasn't enough to fuck the internet up for years.

nextdns 7y ago
Yes, for Adobe Experience Cloud, see: https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interface/ec-cookies/cookies-first-party.html https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interfa...
- VWWHFSfQ 7y ago
  > In order to circumvent tracking limitations imposed by browsers and programs, you can implement first-party cookies. Well at least they're forthcoming about knowing they're intentionally circumventing users privacy settings.

3xblah 7y ago

If we request each of those pages, e.g., foxnews.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, etc. with a simple HTTP client (no JavaScript engine) and we look at the subdomains that appear in each page, we see that in each case the tracker links are absent. The requests to the trackers rely on JavaScript being enabled. What happens when JavaScript is disabled? Further, we can easily list the subdomains that do appear in the page and, assuming they are being used to host content that we want, we can "whitelist" them in our zone file.