Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary
Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary
Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to pl...
I don't get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
Clearly it isn't so useless, or they wouldn't do it.
A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.
They’re effectively crackheads
I have seen certain links on the internet, where,
The text reads "example.com", and when you hover over it, the little textbox at the bottom left also reads "example.com"
but if you click to open the link in a new tab or if you right click and copy the link and paste it in the address bar, it's actually a completely different link
it's shady af! and im wondering if it's the same thing as what this article is describing, and if not, how they are able to do it?
Basically override the default event for an anchor tag and use js to open a new tab to a given link.
My guess would be JavaScript
Wouldn't it be easier to have a blacklist for cookie domains?
@fmstrat @boredsquirrel
There is already: NoScript and predefined lists. Or Pi-Hole.