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There's such a beautiful irony in reading about unfettered data mining on a website (theverge.com) which connects to 37 third-party domains when displaying th

There's such a beautiful irony in reading about unfettered data mining on a website (theverge.com) which connects to *37* third-party domains when displaying the article: 1. ak.sail-horizon.com 2. amazon-adsystem.com 3. api.parsely.com 4. c.amazon-adsystem.com 5. cdn.concert.io 6. concert.io 7. coral.coralproject.net 8. coralproject.net 9. csp.withgoogle.com 10. d35xxde4fgg0cx.cloudfront.net 11. duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com 12. google.com 13. googleoptimize.com 14. googletagmanager.com 15. googletagservices.com 16. gstatic.com 17. ingest.sentry.io 18. js.memberful.com 19. memberful.com 20. micro.rubiconproject.com 21. moatads.com 22. narrativ.com 23. o4682.ingest.sentry.io 24. parsely.com 25. polyfill.io 26. rubiconproject.com 27. sail-horizon.com 28. sentry.io 29. static.narrativ.com 30. theverge.coral.coralproject.net 31. vox-cdn.com 32. www.google.com 33. www.googleoptimize.com 34. www.googletagmanager.com 35. www.googletagservices.com 36. www.gstatic.com 37. z.moatads.com P.S. list courtesy of the uMatrix browser extension

gorhill 3y ago
I see 156 distinct 3rd parties on my side if I disable the content blocker so as to let the second-, third- and nth-waves of JavaScript execute: https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ
- wackget 3y ago
  Wow that is truly shameful. P.S. thanks for uBlock Origin and uMatrix
mtillman 3y ago
New outlets are constantly trashing “Silicon Valley” for apparently providing them with a non trivial portion of their revenue stream.
bdcravens 3y ago
I wonder how many of those companies are YC alum?
Retric 3y ago
The amount of redundancy on that list is hurting the point you’re trying to make. In terms of tracking double/quadruple etc counting the same company isn’t meaningful. So, once you start noticing it the list seems significantly shorter than it actually is (2. amazon-adsystem.com vs 4. c.amazon-adsystem.com). Worse, 5 of them are the same domain with www. in front (12. google.com and 32. www.google.com) which most people subconsciously see as the same thing. Therefore, a slightly curated list comes off as more impactful: 1 amazon-adsystem.com 2 concert.io 3 coralproject.net 4 d35xxde4fgg0cx.cloudfront.net 5 google.com 6 memberful.com 7 moatads.com 8 narrativ.com 9 parsely.com 10 polyfill.io 11 rubiconproject.com 12 sail-horizon.com 13 sentry.io 14 vox-cdn.com 15 z.moatads.com PS: I mean Google representing 10 domains on your list does say something, but it’s only tangential to tracking.

There's such a beautiful irony in reading about unfettered data mining on a website (theverge.com) which connects to *37* third-party domains when displaying th

gorhill 3y ago

I see 156 distinct 3rd parties on my side if I disable the content blocker so as to let the second-, third- and nth-waves of JavaScript execute: https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ

wackget 3y ago
Wow that is truly shameful. P.S. thanks for uBlock Origin and uMatrix

mtillman 3y ago

New outlets are constantly trashing “Silicon Valley” for apparently providing them with a non trivial portion of their revenue stream.

bdcravens 3y ago

I wonder how many of those companies are YC alum?

Retric 3y ago

The amount of redundancy on that list is hurting the point you’re trying to make. In terms of tracking double/quadruple etc counting the same company isn’t meaningful. So, once you start noticing it the list seems significantly shorter than it actually is (2. amazon-adsystem.com vs 4. c.amazon-adsystem.com). Worse, 5 of them are the same domain with www. in front (12. google.com and 32. www.google.com) which most people subconsciously see as the same thing. Therefore, a slightly curated list comes off as more impactful: 1 amazon-adsystem.com 2 concert.io 3 coralproject.net 4 d35xxde4fgg0cx.cloudfront.net 5 google.com 6 memberful.com 7 moatads.com 8 narrativ.com 9 parsely.com 10 polyfill.io 11 rubiconproject.com 12 sail-horizon.com 13 sentry.io 14 vox-cdn.com 15 z.moatads.com PS: I mean Google representing 10 domains on your list does say something, but it’s only tangential to tracking.