Seeing tracker in Ghostery that another Tag Tool is not picking up

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I am seeing a LiveRamp tracker in Ghostery v5.4.3 (Chrome v.41 & Firefox v32) on the same website (www.daft.ie) that I do not see when I use an alternative tool (Taginspector). Does anyone know the reason why?

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Pete (Senior Communications Manager) April 15, 2015 19:09

Do you typically see the same company names on each site across the 2 products?

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Inez Mahony April 16, 2015 17:05

Hi Pete, in theory would all tag monitoring tools not pick up more or less similar tracking pixels? I'm seeing about 60% similar tags. Hopefully you can see the images I've attached!

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- Pete (Senior Communications Manager) April 16, 2015 19:19
  
  Ghostery scans and detects the trackers that we have in our database. I'm not sure how the others detect the scripts. We currently have 2005 different companies in our database. Without knowing how those products detect I can't really give an exact answer.
  
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- Inez Mahony April 17, 2015 13:58
  
  Thanks Pete - can I read up anywhere about how the Ghostery technology scans tracking pixels? It might help me understand how I see Liveramp on Ghostery but not the 2 others (taginspector & WASP)
  
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- Pete (Senior Communications Manager) April 20, 2015 13:56
  
  We don't have any information out about how.. but basically... we have a tracker library with the patterns we've added. We scan each page searching for the patterns that match. if its a match, we display and block based on settings.
  
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Hi Pete, in theory would all tag monitoring tools not pick up more or less similar tracking pixels? I'm seeing about 60% similar tags. Hopefully you can see the images I've attached! <a href="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1189578/GhosteryToolscreengrabofLiveRampcookie.png?1429203699"><img src="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1189578/GhosteryToolscreengrabofLiveRampcookie_inline.png?1429203699" alt="" /></a> <a href="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1189579/TagCompare.png?1429203720"><img src="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1189579/TagCompare_inline.png?1429203720" alt="" /></a>

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