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Can browsers or OSs not treat the corrupted Baidu analytics as malware?
by mwsherman 12y ago
Can browsers or OSs not treat the corrupted Baidu analytics as malware?
- peteretep 12y agoYou'd think, wouldn't you. Or instead simply blacklist Baidu's analytics code completely. That will only hurt Chinese businesses using Baidu's product, and no-one else.
- TheDong 12y agoIt would also hurt american, or european, or any nationality of business that uses baidu to get more insight into chinese visitors. Baidu is certainly most popular within china, but not exclusive to them.
- teknologist 12y agoGoogle Analytics does all that, no worries
- kuschku 12y agoGoogle Analytics is, sometimes, blocked by the GFW – so, if you already sell out your users to Google, using Baidu wouldn’t be an unrealistic use case anymore.
- teknologist 12y agoExcept when it decides to ddos github
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- usrusr 12y agoI agree and I even think that this will be unavoidable, if that kind of abuse keeps going on. Government influence aside, Baidu would be free to host their analytics callbacks for the outside world outside of the GFW. If they stay accomplice to this kind of attack, no matter if forced or willingly, they will suffer.
- songco 12y agothere's lots of China company/sites, you can't block all of them.
- tomjen3 12y agoWe could revoke their certificates, that would prevent any HTTPS request from accessing them. It wouldn't solve the issue completely, but it would be a start.