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add mail_tracking category #85

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jellizaveta opened this issue Sep 29, 2023 · 3 comments
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add mail_tracking category #85

jellizaveta opened this issue Sep 29, 2023 · 3 comments
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We need to allocate a group for trackers used in email. This will help better manage these trackers and protect privacy in email services.
Problem:
Blocking the tracker completely would prevent the user from clicking on links in emails, which would degrade the user experience. Instead, blocking only the tracking pixel allows to preserve mail functionality while protecting the user from unwanted monitoring.
Suggestion:
To block the tracking pixel in the mail, we need to create rules, for the ad blocker, that will aim to block only pictures. So, we need to create a separate mail_tracking category and add an ad blocker rules sheet for this category
Important addition:
Inserting images in the mail client is done via proxy, so we should not create rules as domain specific.
Suggestion rule format:
examle.com$image

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ameshkov commented Oct 9, 2023

We'll need examples of such trackers

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jellizaveta commented Oct 12, 2023

Tracker: thirdparty.bnc.lt

  • Company: Spotify

  • CNAME: wl.spotify.com

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ;; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;wl.spotify.com.			IN CNAME.
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    wl.spotify.com.		110 IN CNAME thirdparty.bnc.lt.
  • Pixel in email client:
    https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....https://wl.spotify.com/ss/o/...../ho.gif

Tracker: cordial.io

  • Company: Forbes.com

  • CNAME: e.email.forbes.com

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;e.email.forbes.com.		IN CNAME.
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    e.email.forbes.com.	600 IN CNAME cname.cordial.com.
  • Pixel in the email client:
    https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....#https://e.email.forbes.com/o/p/

Screenshot:

forbes_pxl


Tracker: sailthru.com

  • Company: Dwell

  • CNAME: link.dwell.com

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;link.dwell.com.			IN CNAME.
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    link.dwell.com.		300 IN CNAME cb.sailthru.com.
  • Pixel in email client: https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....#https://link.dwell.com/img/.....appb/......gif


  • Company: Pet Supermarket

  • CNAME: link.pet-supermarket.co.uk

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;link.pet-supermarket.co.uk.	IN CNAME.
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    link.pet-supermarket.co.uk. 300 IN CNAME cb.sailthru.com.
  • Pixel in email client:
    https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....#https://link.pet-supermarket.co.uk/img/......gif


  • Company: Blockworks

  • CNAME: link.blockworks.co

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ;; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;link.blockworks.co.		IN CNAME.
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    link.blockworks.co.	300 IN CNAME cb.sailthru.com.
  • Pixel in the email client:
    https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....#https://link.blockworks.co/img/...../8401ea07.gif

Tracker: customer.io

  • Company: imagify.io
  • CNAME: email.imagify.io
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;email.imagify.io.		IN CNAME.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
email.imagify.io.	3600 IN CNAME e.customeriomail.com.
  • Pixel in the email client:
    https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/.....#http://email.imagify.io/e/o/

You can see from the examples that pixels are proxied by email providers,
which is problematic because of the way proxies work. In Gmail, these domains don't even show up at the network level. But, extensions can see them (Gmail puts the actual URL in the location.hash part of src)

Letters HTML examples:

letters.zip


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closed by 81fdf50

Alex-302 added a commit to AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters that referenced this issue Nov 13, 2023
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