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danielcuthbert / thescum

This is an attempt to footprint all the trackers and profiling attempts used by numerous UK newspapers operating online, papers known for being liberal with the truth. It is a work in progress and the trackers listed here can also apply to other aspects of the web we use today.
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Remove references to services used by Daily Mail #13

Open andrewaylett opened 4 years ago

andrewaylett commented 4 years ago

I'm not suggesting some of these shouldn't be blocked, depending on context. But they're not Daily Mail domains, so they probably don't belong in this list.

robertybob commented 2 years ago

@andrewaylett Out of interest, which websites get erroneously blocked or affected due to these being left in?

andrewaylett commented 2 years ago

@robertybob, cdn.jsdelivr.net is probably the most problematic, as it's a CDN used by many sites for common Javascript modules. I don't recall specifically which one I hit, I'm afraid, but they serve quite a lot of traffic.

Criteo is a retargeting service which I'm really not fond of, but isn't DM-specific. MPulse is Akamai's RUM service, which is used by lots of sites around the web. I suspect both will be blocked by most tracking blockers, but again not specific to the purpose of this list. The akamaiedge domain may be used by any number of Akamai clients, but it's not easy to tell.

(full disclosure: my employer also engages the services of some of these providers, but not JSDelivr. My browser blocks the ones that track regardless)