[nextdns]

A few websites that are disguising third-party trackers:

Fox News: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnews.com

CNN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/cnn.com

BBC: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/bbc.co.uk

WebMD: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/webmd.com

ESPN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/espn.com

Ars Technica: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/arstechnica.com

Go.com (Disney): https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/go.com

Washington Post: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/washingtonpost.com

Walmart: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/walmart.com

Weather.com: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/weather.com

Apple: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/apple.com

NFL: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/nfl.com

T-Mobile: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/t-mobile.com

State Farm: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/statefarm.com

[temp112719]

Seems like most of these use Adobe Experience Cloud. I'm guessing they offer some kind of HOWTO to set it up as disguised.

Good on Adobe for keeping it up. Flash wasn't enough to fuck the internet up for years.

[nextdns]

Yes, for Adobe Experience Cloud, see: https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interfa...

[VWWHFSfQ]

> In order to circumvent tracking limitations imposed by browsers and programs, you can implement first-party cookies.

Well at least they're forthcoming about knowing they're intentionally circumventing users privacy settings.

[3xblah]

If we request each of those pages, e.g., foxnews.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, etc. with a simple HTTP client (no JavaScript engine) and we look at the subdomains that appear in each page, we see that in each case the tracker links are absent.

The requests to the trackers rely on JavaScript being enabled. What happens when JavaScript is disabled?

Further, we can easily list the subdomains that do appear in the page and, assuming they are being used to host content that we want, we can "whitelist" them in our zone file.