Information Leaks via Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention · HackerPapers discussions

Information Leaks via Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention — mentioned by codezero

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:20:43 GMT

The PDF of the findings is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07421.pdf The way the anti-tracking is worked around is to... use the anti-tracking very intentionally. It's pretty clever. Apparently Apple has addressed a number of the techniques, but I'm sure more will surface. The incentives for the adtech industry to find workarounds is huge, and always has been, I have a feeling it'll continue to be a game of whack-a-mole. Also, as a nerdy aside, looking at the resources on the PoC pages, this work looks to have been done in July of last year.

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Information Leaks via Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention — mentioned by arkadiyt

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:32:07 GMT

Here's the arxiv paper this article is reporting on, it's a short 6 page read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07421.pdf Basically Safari keeps track of which domains are being requested in a 3rd party context (i.e. I load example.com in my browser and the page loads the facebook sdk - Safari increments a counter for facebook by 1). Once a given domain reaches 3 hits, Safari will strip cookies and some other data in 3rd party requests to that domain. The problem is that advertisers can use this to fingerprint users: register arbitrary domains, make 3rd party requests to them, and detect whether or…

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Information Leaks via Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention — HN submission

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:35:12 GMT

Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

151 points; 35 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.