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Re:Show HN: TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising it... by temp112719 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:53PM (#21650181)
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.

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Re:Show HN: TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising it... by nextdns on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:02PM (#21650265)
Yes, for Adobe Experience Cloud, see: https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interfa...
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Re:Show HN: TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising it... by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:20PM (#21652235)
> 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.

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Re:Show HN: TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising it... by 3xblah on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:30PM (#21653231)
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.

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