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Alexander Lehmann shared an idea in Ghostery on December 08, 2009 15:51:

yet another tracking service www.easytracking.de

While browsing around the site I work for I noticed another tracking service that is used on a subdomain, www.easytracking.de
The URL of the pages using it is http://reisebuero.arcor.de/

A comment on the question "Previewing images from bit.ly links only works in some of the cases" in Thing Labs:

I wonder if this is related to this issue: http://getsatisfaction.com/thinglabs/... – Alexander Lehmann, on December 01, 2009 12:36

A comment on the question "Previewing images from bit.ly links only works in some of the cases" in Thing Labs:

the odd thing is that it works with some of the images, some don't. All links are bit.ly links generated by Twitter – Alexander Lehmann, on December 01, 2009 12:34

Alexander Lehmann replied on December 01, 2009 01:10 to the question "www. "Linkifier"" in Thing Labs:

plain domain names do not get converted to clickable links, a link like www.imdb.com isn't clickable, but http://www.imdb.com is

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
plain domain names do not get converted to clickable links.

Alexander Lehmann replied on November 29, 2009 16:49 to the problem "Plinky emails do not display on BlackBerry" in Thing Labs:

I looked a bit futher into the structure error and I think the mime boundaries are mixed up:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="----=_NextPart_fB.Cg9S12tIN_7VUC1Uo3HW9Y"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_r_HUPG7GTY4E.B9AAFURrcmPd
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_fB.Cg9S12tIN_7VUC1Uo3HW9Y"

------=_NextPart_fB.Cg9S12tIN_7VUC1Uo3HW9Y
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

...

------=_NextPart_fB.Cg9S12tIN_7VUC1Uo3HW9Y
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

...

------=_NextPart_fB.Cg9S12tIN_7VUC1Uo3HW9Y--

the boundary ending with Y is probably correct, but it is mentioned again in the content type of the first part, which is probably not right.
the boundary ending with d is not mentioned anywhere else, so it will be ignored.

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Alexander Lehmann replied on November 28, 2009 23:29 to the question "Previewing images from bit.ly links only works in some of the cases" in Thing Labs:

the brizzly link is http://brizzly.com/#twitter/-/user/arcorde_aktuell
this seems to alternate, some images show when loading the profile page, some show on my page

Alexander Lehmann asked a question in Thing Labs on November 28, 2009 23:26:

Previewing images from bit.ly links only works in some of the cases

When viewing tweets that include bit.ly links to images, only a few of the tweets display the images.
I have written a rss to twitter feed for the site I work for that includes the article links and a link to the article image (i.e. the image enclosure from the feed item), that works in some cases but not in all, either this is a load problem (maybe even at our site) or the preview is not working in all cases.
The example feed is twitter.com/arcorde_aktuell

Alexander Lehmann asked a question in Ghostery on November 10, 2009 18:46:

b.scorecardresearch.com is currently not detected

b.scorecardresearch.com is currently not detected, the fact that the javascript file for this is actually called beacon.js doesn't improve my trust of this domain :-)
this is for example used on http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-103...

Alexander Lehmann reported a problem in Ghostery on October 29, 2009 23:15:

kissmetrics.com not detected

vark.com apparently uses a new tracking service called kissmetrics.com, looks like mint

Alexander Lehmann reported a problem in Ghostery on October 25, 2009 20:39:

paste2.org mint stats not detected

I think Mint is sometimes detected, but on paste2.org there seems to be a mint script that is not detected.

Alexander Lehmann reported a problem in Thing Labs on October 24, 2009 22:57:

Plinky emails do not display on BlackBerry

Plinky emails do not display on the BlackBerry, I assume that this an format error in the mail with the mime structure that breaks message parsing on the BB gateway service.

Alexander Lehmann replied on October 19, 2009 14:04 to the question "Does blocking trackers speed up browsing ?" in Ghostery:

That may depend on a few factors including bandwidth, browser speed and of course the number of trackings on a page but in general I'd say yes.

A comment on the idea "Omniture pixel on xing.com" in Ghostery:

NS will not get the bugs either since Omniture contains a simple web bug as noscript tag – Alexander Lehmann, on October 16, 2009 22:20

Alexander Lehmann replied on October 16, 2009 22:19 to the idea "Omniture pixel on xing.com" in Ghostery:

btw, this would be easy if it were possible to include DNS resolve requests in the detection, e.g. any domain that resolves to *.2o7.net or to the respective nets could be detected.
(the same would apply for ABP)

A comment on the idea "Omniture pixel on xing.com" in Ghostery:

I think this can be considered a feature of Omniture, if the customer chooses, they can use their own domain and create a subdomain to point to the Omniture server, e.g. ping metrics.apple.com

Ping wird ausgeführt für appleglobal.112.2o7.net [66.235.132.152] – Alexander Lehmann, on October 16, 2009 22:17

Alexander Lehmann marked one of skankazoid's replies in Thing Labs as useful. skankazoid replied to the idea "Brizzly should auto-refresh".

Alexander Lehmann shared an idea in Ghostery on October 09, 2009 12:57:

Omniture pixel on xing.com

xing.com is using Omniture based on their own sub-domain, i.e. natsp.xing.com/b/ss/xingcomprod/ which is in fact a Omniture IP
this is probably difficult to detect since it isn't the 2o7 domain, but maybe you can detect this based on the individual subdomain

Alexander Lehmann shared an idea in Ghostery on October 05, 2009 09:15:

new tracker *.inq.com

I have found a new tracking tool on the webpage of my company. *.inq.com

this is apparently a customer support tool that tracks if the user is having problems finding the info they are looking for.

as an example take a look at www.vodafone.de

Alexander Lehmann shared an idea in Ghostery on September 30, 2009 18:15:

Add tracking/ad domain ligatus.com

One tracking/ad domain we use is ligatus.com which seems to be used often on German web pages (e.g. rtl.de)
Could you add that to the database?
(e.g. http://www.rtl.de/rtlaktuell/rtl_aktu... )