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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]
[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers
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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:
- Privacy doesn't exist
- Does the Adguard Tracking Protection List protect Chrome and Safari from CNAME trackers?
- fastmailusercontent.com added to AdGuard Tracking Protection filters
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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.
[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers
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Marvel.com CNAME Tracker not in list
Not sure where I should report this, but I seem to have found a CNAME cloaking tracker which i don't find in either the original or disguised tracker lists here https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers Is there a mechanism for reporting these? I saw someone posted a list on github, but no response there. Maybe this example is just ordinary tracking though?
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Magic Lasso Adblock - free ad blocker updated with support for Apple Silicon and Big Sur
Are you able to block trackers/ads using this new CNAME cloaking technique? https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers
little-rat
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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
Great idea! We need a lot more visibility into what extensions are doing. I made little-rat [1] last year, to detect network calls coming from other extensions. Love to see more tools like yours!
[1] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
It says 1.0 in the extensions manager, but it was downloaded fresh this evening by clicking on the 'ZIP' link in your readme.md on here:
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/tree/main
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uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
2: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
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Little Rat Chrome extension works Caught Midnight Lizard monitoring my browsing
I recently installed the Little Rat chrome extension, which I found here on HackerNews.
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
And what I found is that the Midnight Lizard chrome extension is monitoring my browsing-- sending home screenshots.
You can see examples here: https://ibb.co/JQvgt3p
Apparently my browsing data is being ingested by a company called "Mark Monitor Inc." (based on WhoIs search for the domain the data is sent to -- https://www.whois.com/whois/ytimg.com )
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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions
Nifty - but please do this more carefully:
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/main/popup.js#L36
I do not want to have to worry about whether another extension can inject xss into yours with a crafted request/id/name.
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.
uBOL-home - uBO Lite home (MV3)
stealth - :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy
webextensions - Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)
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.
youtube-chapters-in-player - Web extension that shows YouTube chapters right in the player.
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
murder - Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library
pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
AdguardFilters - AdGuard Content Blocking Filters
hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.