Show HN: TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising its 3rd-party trackers?

Post by throwawaymath » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

Post by throwawaymath » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

nextdns wrote: post #3

throwawaymath wrote: post #2

This tool is limited. It cannot be used to assess subdomains. For example, checking news.ycombinator.com redirects to checking ycombinator.com.

Fixed, not sure why we did that in the first place. https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/news.ycombinator.com

Post by temp112719 » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 5:53 PM UTC

nextdns wrote: post #5

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://trac…

Post by hanniabu » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

Post by hanniabu » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

nextdns wrote: post #9

hanniabu wrote: post #8

What if they have a tracking tracker buster?

This is a v1 of our analyzer, but it's already doing a lot of things to mimic a real user (like using a real browser, moving the mouse, scrolling, etc.).