Re: [projectvrm] Fun* with reverse tracking walls

[Don Marti < >]

begin Doc Searls quotation of Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:07:22PM -0400:

> It says I’m protected already in Firefox, but I’m not protected on Chrome, 
> where it suggests Privacy Badger, among protections. As it happens, I’m 
> running Privacy Badger on Chrome at the moment. Screen shot:
> 
> 
> 
> So is this because I whitelisted aloodo? 

If you manually whitelisted tracking by ad.aloodo.com,
or turned off tracking on the first-party site
www.aloodo.org, it will give the wrong answer.

If you're using Privacy Badger with the defaults it
should look like this:

  http://blog.aloodo.org/images/privacy-badger.png

I'll add a note about not whitelisting ad.aloodo.com.

For those who maintain any kind of list-based
privacy protection, please configure any or all of
the following.

 * Block, or double-key, third-party cookies and
   localStorage from ad.aloodo.com

 * Block JavaScript from ad.aloodo.com

 * Block any third-party requests to ad.aloodo.com

 * Block cookies and localStorage from ad.aloodo.com

If you can't do this without blocking all traffic to
ad.aloodo.com, go ahead.  But the finer-grained stuff
is important in the long run.

> Doc
> 
> 
> > On May 6, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Don Marti 
> > <
 >
> >  wrote:
> > 
> > I set up a dirt-simple reverse tracking wall, client
> > side. (Yes, it is easy to hack.  It's not there
> > to stop sophisticated users, who already know how
> > third-party tracking works.  It's there to inform
> > the regular users.)
> > 
> > Step one: is your browser vulnerable to third-party
> > tracking?  Find out.
> > 
> >  http://www.aloodo.org/test/
> > 
> > Step two: try this tracking-protected page:
> > 
> >  http://blog.aloodo.org/misc/protected-post/
> > 
> > If you're trackable, the script should send you away,
> > to a page that tells you to get tracking protection
> > then try again.
> > 
> > Comments, suggestions welcome.  So far this is known
> > to work for users who are protected by:
> > 
> > * Privacy Badger
> > 
> > * Firefox tracking protection
> > 
> > * Crumble
> > 
> > * Apple Safari (in default configuration)
> > 
> > Disconnect: testing now.
> > 
> > MSIE: Submitted to the EasyPrivacy list, which means
> > that at least one of the MSIE TPLs should support
> > it soon.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Don Marti                    
> > http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> > 
 
> 

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Don Marti                    
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