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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by sokoloff on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:19AM (#11421260)
They block one vector of tracking. They don't block CDN-based tracking: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/11/30/a-new-type-of-trackin... (note the juxtaposition of "new" and "2010")
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by cm2187 on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:28AM (#11421314)
Looks like akamai needs to be added to my blockers list.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by iand on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:48AM (#11421434)
Don't forget Google's free hosting of Javascript libraries and webfonts. The cost of serving those is recouped by dropping a cookie on you. Also Google DNS can give them great insight into domain popularity.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by 0xffff2 on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:56PM (#11423876)
>The cost of serving those is recouped by dropping a cookie on you.

Only if you allow third-party cookies. I'm honestly amazed that browsers haven't moved to turn third-party cookies off by default.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by cm2187 on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:14AM (#11421586)
Yeah but there are no cookie in DNS queries. Tracking by IP is a lot more toothless than tracking by cookies / super-cookies.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by pdkl95 on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:25AM (#11422591)
IP based tracking still works most of the time. Dynamic IPs change very infrequently, and NAT combines IPs in physically (and often socially) close groups. It isn't perfect, but a lot of those requests can probably be mapped back to those cookies.

Google's entire business is based on building large database of tracking (and other) information; obviously their DNS is just another data source.

Just skip the recursive resolvers and run a local caching DNS server that starts from the root zones.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by cm2187 on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:04PM (#11423471)
But you can't serve the same ads to the teenager of the family, Grandma and Dad...

And the IP may be a public network.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by saetaes on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:41AM (#11421772)
Akamai sold that business a few years ago:

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/med...

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by sokoloff on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:31AM (#11422633)
That may be, but it seems that Akamai CDN is still giving them a data feed. From that press release:

"As a result of the pixel-free technology partnership, MediaMath's clients will gain access to more data for audience segmentation, retargeting, and optimization, with quick and easy activation."

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by teaneedz on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:12PM (#11423538)
Why a good VPN is pretty much a requirement now. I've been using F-Secure's products and really love seeing all the blocking it does.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by throwaway2048 on Monday April 04, 2016 @02:24PM (#11424115)
the addon decentraleyes is looking to improve the situation

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/decentraleyes...

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