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uBlock Origin aside, it feels like browsers should have built-in support for dealing with this technique (I'm thinking of Safari content blockers and Chrome dec
by rmsaksida 7y ago
uBlock Origin aside, it feels like browsers should have built-in support for dealing with this technique (I'm thinking of Safari content blockers and Chrome declarative net requests). Otherwise it's all too easy for trackers to get around browser protections, rendering content blocking APIs almost useless. You should be able to block the resolved domain for a CNAME, not just the source domain...
- account42 7y agoCNAME is a red herring - it would not take that much more effort to delegate the subdomain to a name server controlled by the tracking service or just dynamically update the A/AAAA records yourself.