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When I visit duckduckgo.com, uBlock reports blocking a tracking image from the domain improving.duckduckgo.com whose url includes my browser user agent. That do
by izietto 8y ago
When I visit duckduckgo.com, uBlock reports blocking a tracking image from the domain improving.duckduckgo.com whose url includes my browser user agent. That doesn't seem fair to me.
- vntok 8y agoOne can only wonder what a backlash Google would get if they had their analytics script at https://improving.google.com/ https://improving.google.com/ instead of https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- fiiv 8y agoI think a company or a maker does have the right to measure how many people are using their product. As long as they constrain their collection to that, I think it's reasonable. The payload (sent via query param) seems to include locale, OS and browser (among with a couple other pieces of info that may or may not be related to the user vs. the page).
- izietto 8y agoMy concern is about the params. If you use Chrome on Windows at San Francisco user agent is dispersive, but if you connect from a little country using an exotic browser and an exotic OS the user agent data could be enough to identify you.