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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by ams6110 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:47PM (#16287051)
I was somewhat shocked that healthcare.gov would have any ads on it. I missed that scandal I guess.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/healthcare.gov-sends-p...

Anyone know if this is still the case? I looked at a couple of pages and only saw tiqcdn.com being blocked by uBlock.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by cosmie on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:43PM (#16287695)
That domain belongs to Tealium IQ, an alternative to Google Tag Manager.

Tag managers allow you to encapsulate third party tags (and really, any JavaScript you want) and have them dynamically injected without having to hard code anything else on the page.

Since that was blocked, you never even saw the other tags that would have attempted being ran.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by azernik on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:13AM (#16289364)
They were using Floodlight, an analytics tool DoubleClick offers for tracking conversions.
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by gkgicccj on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:46PM (#16288246)
On a side note I recently learnt that ESR is against Obama care. Surprising, I can understand someone young not liking having to pay mandatory insurance but he's old.
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