{"id":4085,"date":"2020-08-01T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2020-08-30T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:33:19","slug":"how-do-cname-cloacking-track-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/how-do-cname-cloacking-track-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How do CNAME Cloacking track you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"6ba1\">Can CNAME Cloaking used to serve ads and tracks you?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b133\">Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>they hide google-analytics domain via their own CNAME<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EeUPjBcVoAAbCun?format=png&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ads block tracker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hostfiles.frogeye.fr\/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt\">https:\/\/hostfiles.frogeye.fr\/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hostfiles.frogeye.fr\/firstparty-only-trackers-hosts.txt\">https:\/\/hostfiles.frogeye.fr\/firstparty-only-trackers-hosts.txt<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"5356\">Who is currently doing this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3f87\">Below are the 6 tracking companies that are currently using CNAME cloaking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/4000\/1*yoL1ugarR6GQwEpK_2N4Sw.png\" alt=\"Image for post\"\/><figcaption>From top left to bottom right:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eulerian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eulerian<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atinternet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AT Internet<\/a>&nbsp;(formerly XiTi),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keyade<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/marketing-cloud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adobe Marketing Cloud<\/a>&nbsp;(formerly Omniture),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.criteo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Criteo<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commandersact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commanders Act<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Use Firefox , <em>Firefox for desktop does allow extensions to make DNS queries themselves, and extensions like uBlock Origin already apply their blocking rules to intermediary CNAMEs as well.<\/em><\/li><li>Dont use Chromemium based brwoser, such as Opera, Brave, Mirosoft Edge.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>References <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pfBlockerNG\/comments\/e0bsto\/defence_against_cname_cloaking_pfblockerng_or\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pfBlockerNG\/comments\/e0bsto\/defence_against_cname_cloaking_pfblockerng_or\/<\/a><\/li><li>2.<a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/pietvanzoen\/ed7b8322a552542bc00a83ced7332d33\">https:\/\/gist.github.com\/pietvanzoen\/ed7b8322a552542bc00a83ced7332d33<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNAME Cloacking is the new way to track user without warrant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}