Mike Perry: [snip] > I'm now actually curious if these types of filter addons aren't already > being exploited for these and related weaknesses/shortcomings. > > If any academics are interested in a good publication (Gunes Acar - are > you listening? :), it would be *very* interesting to run a crawl to see > if any websites have begun to behave adversarially against addons like > Adblock, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, etc. After all, it is easy for sites > to determine if an adblocker has blocked an ad load, and then proceed to > load an ad from an alternate URL, domain name, or even another ad > network that may not be covered by the default filters. https://nta.mpi-sws.org/test2/test.html has a demo to use the AliasMatch directive to force ad blockers to block whole domains which could be problematic (In: Akkus/Weaver: The Case for a General and Interaction-based Third-party Cookie Policy. W2SP 2015). Might be interesting to see how susceptible current ad blockers are to this simple trick. [snip] Georg
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