Been google-researching internet tracking tech, and found this nasty thing: https://ericmathison.com/blog/bypass-ad-blockers-and-track-your-visitors-with-piwik/ Would like to know if anyone has found countermeasures to block it. I may of found one: https://hello-kill.github.io/ Hello-kill needs more research to make sure the cure is not worse than the disease, plus the more preventives one can find against Piwik the better.
Hmmm ... so the fellow in that blog just renamed all the files so that there were no reference to "piwik" anymore. Only thing that comes to mind (besides adding these "new" trackers to blocklist) is go to the source and cripple the actual JavaScript code. Example, here is piwiks API: https://developer.piwik.org/api-reference/tracking-javascript When I was still developing my own browser I could do some JavaScript DOM tree manipulation before the content was actually rendered and exexcuted on screen. But because no donations and no help....well...******** Should be possible for other browser/extension makers to make something similar. (For example: setting Piwik.getTracker = null or something similar just before javascript execution time) Of course, that won't work against non-JavaScript tracking .... EDIT: Actually, the php tracking part (for those with JS disabled) of that piwik can also be crippled. All browser/extension maker has to do is remove the <noscript> tags before rendering & executing content on screen.
I don't get it, can this track you in the same way as Facebook buttons? Or is it only to analyze user behavior on a single site?
I expect Stefan Froberg would be able to answer that better than me. I just barely recognize this as a new (or is it just improved?) threat to those very few of us that care about privacy. So far as I can determine, it seems to carry over, and not be confined to just a single site.