Hi malware fighters,
Soon DoubleClick will have mapped the Net, so you better turn your cookies off. Interesting info can be found here: http://www.unixhub.com/block.html
Sure worth a look, contemplate the info, and discuss what are your measures to keep your info out of their hands,
polonus
Is this not somewhat dated "This page best viewed with Netscape 4.7 " and “Updated 3/25/06.” Didn’t Google just buy doubleclick ?
DoubleClick.* is in my blocked cookies and has been for years but I haven’t used Ip addresses
so you better turn your cookies off
Do you actually do this? I’ve always wondered about this, because so many legitimate web sites depend on cookies to work. Do you find that you are unable to use a lot of things on the web?
I’ve also often wondered why people are concerned about “tracking cookies” in the first place? For my own part, I’m not really concerned by the thought that my IP address is correlated to a bunch of URLs in a database somewhere. I should say “IP addresses”, because my home Internet connection has a dynamic IP. At work I share our static IP with 20+ other people… so again, I can’t get worked up about it. But maybe I’m missing something.
I always cringe when I see web sites like that, mostly because the information is presented in so careless a manner. Perhaps he has some good things to say but I wonder why he doesn’t make more of an effort to make his site readable and user-friendly? You don’t need to pander to the “bloat in new browsers” (his words) to make your web site clean, organized, and attractive to read.
The part at the end of the page particularly bothers me. He quotes two emails from “(ex)SPAMMERS” asking him to remove them from his blacklist. I don’t see any reason, from the emails themselves, to think that one or the other of those people is more trustworthy, and yet he believes the second guy but thinks the first is lying. And apparently he makes his decision to remove them from the blacklist based on this judgment.
Now it could be that he brings more information to the decision, like firewall logs and his analysis of mail headers from live spam he’s collected – but again, it would be nice to see that explained in detail on the web page. He says that he was spammed “4 times in 20 seconds” by the first sender – but he doesn’t say how he figured this out. From mail headers (some of which can be spoofed)? From the “From” address in the spams, which is frequently spoofed? Was it intentional? Maybe the “spammer” had malware on his server but didn’t realize it…
Also, and this is perhaps the most disturbing thing: the page says “Updated 3/25/06” at the top. :o
Hi bslorence,
No I do not use this, I do not use the wiki block plug-in neither, no and I do not block cookies, only clear them out at the end of a browser session. I only use the AdBlockPlus add-on together with NoScript, and the sites which are blocked are blocked by SpywareBlaster, but I see sometimes ominous url’s in my monitor like 155.212.3.86 and 216.251.43.11 or find a http://a248.e.akamai.net followed a long string of deltav characters in content.IE5 in documents and settings that can be deleted by CrapCleaner only after a reboot.
That is why I read the blocklist information, just to learn more about the spam and security implications, and not because it is outdated material, I think the information is still (partly) valid for the domains treated.
I do not endorse anyone to use it, just wanted to put it here for users to react to and starting up a discussion about the subject, because it is mainly untreated. Why people developed BlockListInstallers then? And yes tracking cookies are unwanted, and tracking user profiles “could” have security and privacy implications.
polonus
I have for years blocked 3rd party cookies without any problems. There are also some sites whose cookies get blocked no mater what. Doubleclick is surely one of many on my bad list.
DoubleClick has many many different domains I found DoubleClick.net, DoubleClick.com, DoubleClick.co.uk and I’m sure there will be one for most if not all country domains, so I have used a wildcard DoubleClick.* in the past that should cater for most eventualities.
But the third party cookie I feel is a good option to disable (allow cookies for originating web site, etc.) if you can in your browser.
Hi folks,
This is also an interesting site, I have the three items here added to my chrome file in FF:
http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/
Also that people that have objections against AdBlockPlus may find some protection.
polonus
Also that people that have objections against AdBlockPlus may find some protection.not me damian-adblock plus still on my firefox and thunderbird ;D new movie....
Hi malware fighters,
But in some respects blacklists are bad, for instance read this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/08/blacklists_are_baaad/ &
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/07/01/196/Time_to_Blacklist_Blacklists
I would not say that we can totally do without blacklists, but we need additional protection as well.
polonus