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DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused tech company, today launched something called Tracker Radar—an open-source, automatically generated and continually updated list that currently contains more than 5,000 domains that more than 1,700 companies use to track people online.
The idea behind Tracker Radar, first reported by CNET, is to share the data DuckDuckGo has collected to create a better set of tracker blockers. DuckDuckGo says that the majority of existing tracker data falls into two types: block lists and in-browser tracker identification. The issue is the former relies on crowd-sourcing and manual maintenance. The latter is difficult to scale and also can be potentially abused due to the fact it's generating a list based on your actual browsing habits. Tracker Radar supposedly gets around some of these issues by looking at the most common cross-site trackers and including a host of information about their behavior, things like prevalence, fingerprinting, cookies, and privacy policies, among other considerations.
See DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar GitHub page for the list and other tools.
Obligatory alt-aristarchus comment: If it walks like a duckduckgo, and it quacks like a duckduckgo, it's got privacy like a duckduckgo! Thanks, Google!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:34AM (4 children)
On the github page:
"Sorry, we had to truncate this directory to 1,000 files. 4,326 entries were omitted from the list."
Putting a tracking block list on a service controlled by Redmond is probably not a reliable place to host it. Perhaps it should be mirrored in a few dozen places, with validation hashes to it can be checked across multiple sites for continuity. Not complaining, but this is the sort of thing that attracts vendor abuse.
Thanks!
(Score: 5, Informative) by progo on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:34AM (1 child)
This is not a problem or anything malicious. The web front-end for a source code repository in GitHub is meant for casual inspection. If you are going to use the data, it's assume you will download a clone of the whole repository via Git protocol, with all of its history and metadata. Then you can read what you want locally.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:56PM
Ah, so the project is only for people who already use github and know the knucklehead stuff. /sarc
It still doesn't solve the fact that the image can be vectored differently to different users from the server side. Which is why it needs to be mirrored. Or are you saying that you trust github?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @07:41PM (1 child)
what kind of homo modded this "troll"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @03:08PM
Dunno, but I'm pretty sure he came from Redmond.