Re:Show HN: Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics
by StefanoC on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:48AM
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None taken. Believe it or not I'm mostly on your side. I published this because I've managed to do this in 4 hours, for fun. It exploits the url based blocking which is so prominent but so easily subverted, and If I've done it anybody can, so I wanted people to know.
Having said that, I must add, I don't think this is malicious software. Beside the legalities and the GDPRities which I may have overlooked, when you ask a website for its content that comes with analytics, but you want to block analytics. I don't think you can complain about the content provider bypassing your attempt at blocking it. Don't get me wrong, when I come across websites that stop me from browsing them because I use uBlock I usually bypass their block, or close the tab, but I can hardly complain at their attempt, or deem it as malicious, IMHO.
It's malicious software, circumventing the protections afforded to me by my ad/tracker blocking software.
I'll contribute in any way I can to adblocking tech, and to any impotency of this kind of technology.