app.adjust.com is required to set up 2FA for MS Live

[MagerValp]

I tried to enable two step verification on my Microsoft Live account, but the process couldn't be completed until I added a whitelist entry for app.adjust.com.

[teohhanhui]

app.adjust.com is used for many "launch or install app" (deep)links anyway. I don't think we can block it without breaking many things.

At least this must be whitelisted when "Allow Affiliate & Tracking Links" is selected.

[romaincointepas]

It's currently blocked by all those blocklists:

1hosts-complete
1hosts-mini
1hosts-pro
abpvn-list
adaway
adguard-base-filter
adguard-simplified
anudeep-blacklist
bkrucarci-turk-adlist
certyficateit
chef-koch-spotify
easylist
energized-basic
energized-blu
energized-blu-go
energized-regional-extension
energized-spark
energized-ultimate
energized-xtreme-extension
goodbye-ads
goodbye-ads-ultra
hostsvn
lightswitch05-ads-tracking
nextdns-recommended
notrack-tracker-blocklist
notracking
shallas-blacklists-tracker
steven-black
wally3k-personal

Wondering if we should whitelist it from nextdns-recommended, or just affiliate/tracking. Thoughts?

[badmojr]

I don’t think app.adjust.com fits into the “affiliate/tracking” description, which states: “Those usually only get called after manually clicking on a link“.

[teohhanhui]

@badmojr Actually it is exactly what you've described. There are many app.adjust.com tracking / redirect links as I've explained above.

[badmojr]

@teohhanhui Take Spotify for instance. https://open.spotify.com/artist/0QHgL1lAIqAw0HtD7YldmP

It also uses the above domain to track installs/conversions. But, the domain will continually keep on tracking the user long after s/he installed the app.

It not a one-time-track-install & be done “app installs tracker” like app.link (used by Reddit).

[badmojr]

Wondering if we should whitelist it from nextdns-recommended, or just affiliate/tracking. Thoughts?

In my humble opinion, whitelist it from nextdns-recommended only.

[crssi]

Here I have a lot of denies to app.adjust.com and nothing is broken. I think that app.adjust.com is abused by many and if someone has problems with it (I would guess that is a minority) it should be manually whitelisted.

IMHO the app.adjust.com should not be part of affiliate-tracking-domains and secondly, we (as a customers) need exact definition for affiliate-tracking-domains, since ATM it looks like all sort of things are thrown into it, without real explanation.