News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020). Parent comment

Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by xigoi on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:13AM (#30412750)
Couldn't you still recognize the script by its content?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by freedomben on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:22AM (#30413195)
No because the script contents can change from site to site. Maintaining an index for every site would get you closer, but individual sites can trivially tweak things to break fingerprinting as often as they want. Even on every request.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by shafyy on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:43AM (#30412954)
Exactly, this is already done for tracking scripts, since it's commong to use proxies to load tracking scripts.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by ComodoHacker on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:38AM (#30412917)
Not with dynamic obfuscation.
[ Parent | on HN ]