XTranslate is tracking users by redirecting via LinkSynergy including a unique tracking ID

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Easy translate text on web pages (chrome extension)

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XTranslate is tracking users by redirecting via LinkSynergy including a unique tracking ID #51

Closed StrangePeanut closed 2 years ago

StrangePeanut commented 2 years ago

XTranslate 2.64.2 on Chrome has started to track users' browser activity by redirecting search results (and possibly more) via LinkSynergy including a unique tracking ID. It came to our attention due to LinkSynergy being null routed on our network.

Example hit: http://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...&mid=...&subid=[[...]]&u1=[[...]]&murl=...

XTranslate 2.64.0 on Edge appears to be unaffected (for now)

StrangePeanut commented 2 years ago

Relevant commit: https://github.com/ixrock/XTranslate/commit/54ff26a3b11b5cb7b61b202cf283533668c0334b

ixrock commented 2 years ago

What the topic of issue? :) Users are not tracked (as adgoal.de declares) and they use only ClickID and OrderID. Also it's declared that current extension in partnership with adgoal.de in project's Privacy policy. If you're against this policy please delete and stop using XTranslate for now.

ixrock commented 2 years ago

@StrangePeanut in nexts releases we might add a "button" to disable this ads by user request or if it's not working in his network (e.g. redirected url is not allowed by proxy server, etc)