Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by kingartur44 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:51AM
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In this way, you are opening a lot of things of your site to the advertizer. They can grab your users session cookies or even intercept everything they send to you
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by 01acheru on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:07AM
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Just to clarify, as I said it was not an ad tracker, all data was ours and ours only. It was 1st party tracking using a 3rd party service that was blocked by ad blockers. Anyway we don't use cookies for *.mycompany.com, and it was a session-less website.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by Valmar on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:40AM
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Evil, but clever.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by 01acheru on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:46AM
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Thanks for the cleverness! As for the evil, it was a tracker whose data wasn't shared with 3rd parties, we needed to gather as much data about our users as possible since we are incredibly understaffed (one handles the business, one sells the product and I do the tech)... it helped us a lot with support requests and customer acquisition
It was fairly trivial: instead of asking for the tracking script directly I put a small service of ours in front of it, so our website asked for foo.mycompany.com/stats.js that fetched the correct script and changed all URLs inside of it from mycomp.mytrack.com to foo.mycompany.com. Our service than acted as a proxy to mycomp.mytrack.com.
A simple solution that worked out for a while, lost by now, in a server, somewhere in Ireland...