0000200: Comscore Beacon / Google Analytics

(0000294)
zottel (developer)
2011-11-11 17:36

Or is that maybe coming from stuff that was oembedded?

(0000295)
netdrone (reporter)
2011-11-11 18:24

it seems to be coming whenever a vimeo video is embedded in a post, tony baldwin post here http://frndk.de/display/tony/257182 [^] triggers the ghostery notice but Vasudeva post here http://frndk.de/display/copyninja/250889 [^] does not

(0000296)
macgirvin (administrator)
2011-11-11 23:07

I don't know that we can prevent tracking cookies from embedded media.

In the case of Tony's post, the message arrived (bbcode source) as

[vimeo]31100268[/vimeo]

which is using normal bbcode embedding and isn't using oembed. There are situations where vimeo will use oembed - I believe coming from Diaspora. In the oembed version we stick the embed code into an iframe. When using the vimeo tag we do not. I'm not certain an iframe would solve the problem - the tracking cookies would still be present, but they would be running under a different browser context.

(0000300)
zottel (developer)
2011-11-12 04:43

Ok, I don't think such stuff can be easily filtered.
Unless you see a realistic option to actually do this in the future, I'd say close the ticket.

(0000301)
macgirvin (administrator)
2011-11-12 04:49

I'd like to leave the ticket open. It's representative of a larger issue. People who use web services of many kinds can be tracked. Can we help them? I'm sure we can. Can we completely prevent them from being tracked while they use our service? I don't know. But there are some clever people who may be reading this.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-11-11 17:27	zottel	New Issue
2011-11-11 17:36	zottel	Note Added: 0000294
2011-11-11 18:24	netdrone	Note Added: 0000295
2011-11-11 23:07	macgirvin	Note Added: 0000296
2011-11-12 04:43	zottel	Note Added: 0000300
2011-11-12 04:49	macgirvin	Note Added: 0000301

Notes
(0000294) zottel (developer) 2011-11-11 17:36	Or is that maybe coming from stuff that was oembedded?

(0000295) netdrone (reporter) 2011-11-11 18:24	it seems to be coming whenever a vimeo video is embedded in a post, tony baldwin post here http://frndk.de/display/tony/257182 [^] triggers the ghostery notice but Vasudeva post here http://frndk.de/display/copyninja/250889 [^] does not

(0000296) macgirvin (administrator) 2011-11-11 23:07	I don't know that we can prevent tracking cookies from embedded media. In the case of Tony's post, the message arrived (bbcode source) as [vimeo]31100268[/vimeo] which is using normal bbcode embedding and isn't using oembed. There are situations where vimeo will use oembed - I believe coming from Diaspora. In the oembed version we stick the embed code into an iframe. When using the vimeo tag we do not. I'm not certain an iframe would solve the problem - the tracking cookies would still be present, but they would be running under a different browser context.

(0000300) zottel (developer) 2011-11-12 04:43	Ok, I don't think such stuff can be easily filtered. Unless you see a realistic option to actually do this in the future, I'd say close the ticket.

(0000301) macgirvin (administrator) 2011-11-12 04:49	I'd like to leave the ticket open. It's representative of a larger issue. People who use web services of many kinds can be tracked. Can we help them? I'm sure we can. Can we completely prevent them from being tracked while they use our service? I don't know. But there are some clever people who may be reading this.

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