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cname-trackers
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uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
Note that CNAMEs is literally caused by GDPR, and the pathway every single ad or tracking company seems to go sooner or later.
For people not understanding how it works: you can set a CNAME entry on your tracker.domain.tld to bypass all Browser's third-party tracking preventions, and make it look like it's a normal subdomain of your website.
You need to make a CNAME tracker database manually by resolving the reverse entries for known IPs. Usually there is hundreds or thousands of CNAME entries pointing to the same IP address.
The AdGuard team also made a database for this, in case anyone needs it for UBOL [1]
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Disguised trackers are blocked regardless of toggle (which is a good thing)
So nextdns’s third party disguised trackers is actually really tiny of a list, like 30 domains. (Im trying to add more so it has the same amount of cname’s blocked as adguard). Anyways, the reason why the list is so tiny is because it uses wildcard logic so all subdomains get blocked. It already uses some of the cname companies that adguards cname-tracker list uses but not all. Hopefully my pull request can get merge eventually because then the setting will be a little bit more effective
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How to block fathom tracking
I see fathom on Adguard CNAME tracker. Example:
- Does the Adguard Tracking Protection List protect Chrome and Safari from CNAME trackers?
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YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
> uBlock Origin already performs CNAME decloaking and blocks this approach, it’s pretty cool.
... which in return is a static list of domains which needs to be regularly updated, and therefore is not really failsafe. uBlock0 uses Adguard's scraped dataset [1] as a source to do this, as Chrome Extensions cannot make DNS requests without a DNS-via-HTTPS endpoint.
- New Adguard CNAME Tracker List that works on Pi-hole!
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AdGuard CNAME Tracker List
Just wanted to point out there's also a "justdomains" variant: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers/blob/master/combined_disguised_trackers_justdomains.txt
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CNAME cloaking - is there a countermeasure coming to Pi-Hole?
I stumbled across AdGuard publishing a new list of trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique and, AFAIK, Pi-Hole does not offer any protection against these. So, I was wondering if there was something planned to do so.
- AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique
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What are some alternatives?
cname-cloaking-blocklist - A list of domains used by tracking companies as CNAME destination when disguising third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
youtube-webos - Youtube App without ADs
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
stealth - :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy
wirehole - WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
xManager-Spotify - Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]
AdguardFilters - AdGuard Content Blocking Filters
vanced-website-v2 - Source Code of the Vanced Website
AdGuardDNS - Public DNS resolver that protects you from ad trackers