Nanovisor loading potential tracking around privacy badger

[ghajini]

@alexristich
this is in relation to
#1018
comment no 4 of above thread
firstly googleadservices or doubleclick ads are loaded though logger doesn't show entry of that....
after right click> inspect page>console ,page reloads and all ads are gone????
why they are not blocked previously(before reaching inspect page>console)...
is it like the way pb works
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z39esviabxca6pf/Dec%2013%202016%2012-41%20AM.webm?dl=0

[terrorist96]

I can confirm that I do see ads on both nationalpost and chicagotribune, even with PB, ABP, Ghostery all installed.

[cooperq]

Well then this confirms that they are either using first party ads or have some adblocker circumvention. (likely web sockets)

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[ghostwords]

Looks like chicagotribune.com uses a product called Nanovisor. Also used by washingtonpost.com (maybe), weather.com, nasdaq.com, boston.com, saveur.com, ...

[ghostwords]

It's a matter of prioritization. This seems like a niche situation without a straightforward workaround. Until something changes, I recommend using uBlock Origin on Firefox (Chrome does not support request content filtering) to defeat this particular tracker.

[ghostwords]

Instart was acquired by Akamai. Nanovisor appears to be dead.