[PrivacyBadger] Using the behaviour engine for other purposes

[Maxim Nazarenko]

Hello!

One issue with forward proxy will be TLS: Privacy Badger needs to
modify the data, and that is basically MITM attack.

Best regards,
Maxim Nazarenko

On 9 March 2018 at 17:03, Kjetil Kjernsmo via PrivacyBadger
<privacybadger at lists.eff.org> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Many thanks for the Privacy Badger, it alone makes my EFF membership well
> worth, and I hope to increase my donation in near future. I would like to
> share an idea:
>
> Would it be possible to refactor the code so that the engine checking
> whether you are tracked can be reused in completely different contexts?
>
> I have a couple of use cases for it: I'd like to run it on a forward proxy
> at home. We have simply too many devices in the house, and to install the
> browser extension on all is too much work. And who knows what other apps
> than the browsers are doing...? So, I figured, I'd rather set it on a Squid
> proxy and let that block the trackers...
>
> My second use case is to use it an a Web crawler. I'm in Norway, and the
> public sector is being automated and streamlined. I strongly support this
> effort, but sometimes they mess things up. For example, they make heavy use
> of Google Analytics, which I think is a bad idea in itself, but it gets
> worse when they also mess up the settings and enable the DoubleClick
> cookies, which is a blatant violation of the law. I have used Privacy
> Badger to alert me to this fact and send complaints, and the response has
> been OK: "Thank you for the notification, we are truly sorry, and have
> disabled the cookie promptly", but this is apparently *really* hard,
> because every agency seems to get it wrong every now and then... :-/
> So, if citizen vigilance is required, I should at least automate it. It is
> straightforward to hack a crawler that monitors these sites, but it would
> be nice to re-use the code that Privacy Badger has to determine the
> likelyhood of trackers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kjetil
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