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I mean, yeah, free Disqus is bad, I don't need an "one-of-a-kind free public tool that can be used to inspect websites for potential privacy violations in real
by input_sh 6y ago
I mean, yeah, free Disqus is bad, I don't need an "one-of-a-kind free public tool that can be used to inspect websites for potential privacy violations in real time" to tell me that. And that "one-of-a-kind" claim is just laughable, I can name like a dozen number-of-trackers-on-a-page projects.
The only mildly entertaining thing is that the website reporting on this isn't packed filled with trackers of its own (just BlueKai, which unsurprisingly isn't reported by its "one-of-a-kind" tracker detecting tool).
- Doctor_Fegg 6y ago_You_ don't need that, but the point of the article is that the woman building the trans support site did. Not everyone is as tech-literate as HN readers.
- simonft-mrkp 6y agoHey, I work at The Markup. Do you mind sharing where you're seeing the tracker? We very intentionally aren't loading trackers like that, so if it's showing up somewhere I'd like to figure out why. The tool does pick up Oracle DMP, which is what Oracle renamed kinda sorta renamed BlueKai to. For example, see The New Yorker's site (scroll down and expand the Oracle heading): https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=newyorker.com https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=newyorker.com Edit: Oh, hah, I suspect whatever tool you're using is picking up this image, which uBlock origin is flagging it for me: https://mrkp-static-production.themarkup.org/graphics/blacklight-national/1600461110056/assets/bluekai.jpg https://mrkp-static-production.themarkup.org/graphics/blackl...