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Also, a tracking service could just ask to be CNAMEd to a random subdomain and become everybody’s “first party”, couldn’t it?
by tuxone 7y ago
Also, a tracking service could just ask to be CNAMEd to a random subdomain and become everybody’s “first party”, couldn’t it?
- lmkg 7y agoThis has been a feature of Adobe Analytics for over a decade. Google Analytics doesn't currently offer this as a feature, but some enterprising individuals have explored how to hack it in after ITP 2.1 was announced.
- om2 7y agoIt could, but access through these various CNAMEs would not give it stateful cross-site tracking ability, since each would be a different Origin. It would be providing a hosted first-party analytics/ads/whatever service within the storage space of the first party.
- randall 7y agoAdditionally, people who own the sites can use them together via methods like this, while third parties will have a more difficult time. Bravo.