Remove wistia from trackers list

[prabushitha]

Domain(s) to review. Separate them by comma.

wistia.com

Rationale for removing, adding, or recategorizing.

Block only the applicable subdomains without blocking the entire list of subdomains breaks product features

Where domain(s) observed. Separate them by comma.

fast.wistia.com,embed-cloudfront.wistia.com

Additional notes

Wistia is a service which provides video embed service to other businesses. fast.wistia.com & embed-cloudfront.wistia.com is being used while embedding videos and seems it's being blocked. Below should be removed from trackers.

• embed-cloudfront.wistia.com
• fast.wistia.com Since entire wistia.com is marked as trackers, it seems it's blocking the above 2 subdomains. (Note that I'm not an employee from wistia. we're using wistia to embed videos to our website and firefox is blocking the video loading)

Here's the firefox error (firefox relies on disconnect me list of trackers to block these websites)

The resource at “https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js” was blocked because content blocking is enabled.

[disconnectme]

Thanks for the submission, this issue is under review.

[disconnectme]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Our technical and policy review determined that wistia.com meets our definition of Tracking (See https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection), and that this domain is properly classified.   Our technical review revealed Request URLs from wistia.com’s subdomains are present on thousands of 3P sites. We are seeing what appear to be tracking requests (like originating 3P domain, “blank.gif”, “googleAnalytics”, and “metrics”) from subdomains including but not limited to the following:

• Example: https://www.zendesk.com/ Request URL https://pipedream.wistia.com/mput?topic=metrics 
- Example: https://www.shopify.com/ Request URL https://distillery.wistia.com/x 
- Example: https://acculynx.com/ Request URL https://acculynx.wistia.com/medias/z7hron1dbd?embedType=async&seo=true&videoFoam=false&videoWidth=250&wmode=transparent&playSuspendedOffScreen=true - Example: https://amplitude.com/ Request URL https://embed-cloudfront.wistia.com/deliveries/ee4261e08bfb6c4c178b74521c4d88d2500aae3b.m3u8/seg-2-v1-a1.ts
• Example: https://www.shopify.com/ Request URL https://fast.wistia.com/assets/images/blank.gif 
- Example: https://www.bigcommerce.com/ Request URL https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/googleAnalytics4.js   In addition, several portions of the Wistia policy and website marketing seem to support the current classification, including but not limited to the following:   Website marketing:
• “Measure and optimize your videos’ performance with analytics that help you take action. We’ve got video heatmaps and A/B testing, and you can integrate Wistia analytics with your marketing automation platform.” https://wistia.com/
• “See how your audience arrives at your video. And when you use UTM codes, we’ll show you how much traffic your video gets by campaign, source, and medium.” https://wistia.com/product/analytics
• “Supercharge your lead scoring with video data Integrate Wistia with HubSpot, Adobe Marketo Engage, or Pardot and use video viewing data to score leads and trigger workflows.” https://wistia.com/product/marketing-automation
• “Flex those video marketing muscles Power your funnel with features that attract, convert, and retain customers.” https://wistia.com/product   Privacy policy https://wistia.com/privacy talks about data collection:
• “By visiting or using the various websites owned and operated by Wistia under the wistia.com domain, including, without limitation, the https://wistia.com/ website (each, a “Website, and collectively, the “Websites”), accessing, listening to, or viewing Media hosted by Wistia and/or accessing or using any other functionalities, features, content, applications or services offered from time to time by Wistia in connection with the Websites or Media (collectively, the “Services”) in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your information in the following ways.”
• ”Whenever you interact with any of our Websites or Media, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including data related to Media viewing, listening to, or accessing (including when you stop and start Media, how many and which Media of a particular Customer you watched, and how many times you watched, listened to, or accessed particular Media), data related to use of Services, IP address, device, “cookie” information, and the page you requested.”
• “Wistia has collected the following categories of Personal Information in the 12 months immediately preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, listed at the bottom of this document: names; contact information; payment information; IP addresses; geographic location (inferred from IP addresses, as described in Section III below); browser information; device information; information related to the use of the Websites, Media, and Services; email confirmations; user name or e-mail address in combination with a password that would permit access to the Services; the content of communications; user profile information and submissions; job titles; employers; and firmographic information.”
• “As mentioned above, we may provide Customers with certain identifiable usage information directly related to the Media that such Customers make available through the Websites and Services. Such information may include IP addresses, geographic location, browser information, device information, and information related to the use of the Websites, Media, and Services (such as how many and which Media of a particular Customer was watched by a particular user, from where particular Media was watched, listened to, or accessed by a particular user and how many times particular Media was watched, listened to, or accessed by a particular user). We may also share names, contact information, geographic location, the content of communications, user profile information and submissions, job titles, employers, and firmographic information which Customers may use to market or further develop their organizations.”

In regard to the specific video breakage, we balance privacy and usability concerns. It’s possible that Wistia could use separate domains for tracking and serving videos.