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Observed trackers "leak" between page loads #1241

Closed GRadziejewski closed 4 months ago

GRadziejewski commented 1 year ago

Description Tracker is visible on second website when I go to it strictly from the search engine website. After reloads, tracker disappears.

Steps to Reproduce Scenario 1

  1. Open any search engine website, for example https://google.com

  2. Open Devtools and switch to Network tab

  3. Search for example example.com

  4. Open Ghostery panel and look for Site Analytics/ Google Beacons.

  5. Copy "www.google.com/gen_204"

  6. Search it in Network tab, from step 2 image

  7. Open Example Domain and open Ghostery panel image

  8. Tracker is still visible.

  9. Reload the website and open again Ghostery panel image

Steps to Reproduce Scenario 2

  1. Open any search engine website, for example https://bing.com

  2. Open Devtools and switch to Network tab

  3. Search for example happy bab la

  4. Open Ghostery panel and look for Advertising/ Bing Ads

  5. Copy "bing.com"

  6. Search it in Network tab, from step 2 image

  7. Open HAPPY - Tłumaczenie na polski - bab.la and open Ghostery panel image

  8. Tracker is still visible.

  9. Reload the website and open again Ghostery panel image

Expected results Tracker cannot be visible on second website when I go to it strictly from the search engine website.

Versions Browser: Chrome 115.0.5790.99 (Official Build) (64-bit) OS: Windows 10 Pro 19045.3086 GBE: 8.11.1

philipp-classen commented 1 year ago

Confirmed on Firefox.

chrmod commented 1 year ago

This problem manifest itself on whotracks.me, for example: https://whotracks.me/websites/glowstery.com.html reports some google trackers which were never present on that page.

philipp-classen commented 1 year ago

Also on https://whotracks.me/websites/ghosterysearch.com.html

smalluban commented 4 months ago

Chrome platform migrated to v10. Feel free to re-open if the issue is still valid.

philipp-classen commented 4 months ago

Fine to leave it closed, since I also cannot reproduce it anymore (in the UI).

However, based on the data, it may still applies: https://www.ghostery.com/whotracksme/websites/ghosterysearch.com (wrongly showing Google Analytics)

We have this ticket open on WhoTracks.me to track that: https://github.com/whotracksme/whotracks.me/issues/333