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Its only a matter of time before the ad companies make their tracking unblockable e.g. by hosting something critical to the page, e.g. "make the webpage downloa
by willvarfar 7y ago
Its only a matter of time before the ad companies make their tracking unblockable e.g. by hosting something critical to the page, e.g. "make the webpage download jquery.js from our mirror, and you get all this tracking that can't be blocked!"
Isn't this happening already, and if not, why not?
- kasey_junk 7y agoAd companies very much are building out cdn so they can do this. But it’s a complex marketplace and e-commerce/media folk are very reluctant to cede control. Amp is probably the ad tracker cdn that has been most successful.
- k__ 7y agoI was working for a web analytics company 5 years ago that would build in-house/on-premise solutions. The on-premise solution allows an easy setup of reverse proxy tracking, which isn't blockable in any way. I know a few companies who run well known sites that use this technique and I could imagine every one with money does it like that.
- 1f60c 7y agoThis is called CNAME cloaking[0] and it’s already happening in the wild[1]. [0]: https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disguise-of-third-party-trackers-195205dc522a [1]: https://9to5mac.com