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Can't trackers change to using a credit-card-scheme-style "dynamic" tracking ID system (you know, the same way you can tell if a credit card is Visa or MasterCa
by tolmasky 3y ago
Can't trackers change to using a credit-card-scheme-style "dynamic" tracking ID system (you know, the same way you can tell if a credit card is Visa or MasterCard)? For example, if instead of looking for "gclid", a site looks for "f(query-key) == 39", where "f(query-key) = char1 + char2 + ... + charN % 64". Under this system, each advertising provider simply needs to own a mod number instead of a query-key (Google would look for 39, Microsoft for 23, etc.). You can then have infinitely many tracking keys, that don't even need to be consistent within the same session. At this point, you would probably feel a lot less confident about arbitrarily removing these from the URL, since it becomes increasingly difficult to know for sure that you aren't breaking a legitimate use-case query parameter.
- joshstrange 3y agoThey could, in the same way ads/analytics can be served from your own domain (or more likely subdomain) to avoid various adblock/analytics-block tools. It's a cat and mouse game.
- SoKamil 3y agoTikTok already does this similar way. If you share a link to a video, tracking data is encoded in the URL