cname-trackers
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cname-trackers | SponsorBlock | |
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25 | 903 | |
367 | 8,582 | |
1.1% | - | |
8.2 | 9.3 | |
11 days ago | 11 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
SponsorBlock
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
And if you have android:
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
For the latter there’s the open-source SponsorBlock: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
During this debacle I did discover SponsorBlock - https://sponsor.ajay.app/
This is different from YouTube platform ad-blocking, instead it is crowd-sourced auto-skip of in-video sponsorship messages etc. Quite configurable, really appreciating it so far.
- YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
> a creator having a "merch" ad integration doesn't count as an ad.
this is why you also install sponsorblock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). Only whitelist the channels you want to "support", if you really want to make sure to eyeball the sponsorship (which doesn't really help unless it happens to be a product you actually are interested in buying).
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FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
This is from the same person that made sponsorblock https://sponsor.ajay.app/
This means that it's the community that sees sensational thumbnails and changes them to some other thumbnail. By default dearrow shows random thumbnails if no other were provided by the community. But you can disable this and show original thumbnails, but if there is a community submitted thumbnail it will show the community submitted one. I think for example the arte thumbnails won't get changed to other thumbnails as they are not sensational/clickbaity/mouth open.
What are some alternatives?
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
TwitchAdSolutions
SmartYouTubeTV - Watch YouTube videos on your TV and set-top-box with comfort
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
SmartTube - SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.