[tor-talk] (no subject)

Thu Jul 3 21:19:36 UTC 2014

I'm not referring to this.I'm talking of a lot of URI that appears when I
try to link to any site. Every one of those Remote Address start with a
couple o letters followed by numbers like this:
server-54-230-83-145.mia50.r.cloudfront.net  .

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at eff.org> wrote:

> ideas buenas writes:
>
> > Why is markmonitor.com and its derivates in my TBB? How can I do to
> delete
> > this ? Are they watching me?
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you talking about seeing a markmonitor.com rule in the HTTPS
> Everywhere
> Enable/Disable Rules menu?
>
> https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/domains/markmonitor.com.html
>
> If so, this is one of thousands of HTTPS Everywhere rewrite rules that
> are included with HTTPS Everywhere, which is included with the Tor
> Browser Bundle.  The goal of HTTPS Everywhere and its rewrite rules
> is to automatically access as many sites as possible with secure HTTPS
> connections.
>
> HTTPS Everywhere typically does not make your browser access sites or
> services that it would not otherwise have accessed, so it shouldn't help
> sites monitor your web browsing if they would otherwise not have been
> able to.  There are definitely lots of sites that can monitor some aspects
> of your web browsing because the site operator has included content loaded
> from those sites in their web page (so your browser automatically retrieves
> that content when you visit the page that embedded the content).  For
> example, there are ad networks whose ads are embedded in thousands or
> millions of different sites, and if you visit any of those sites without
> blocking those ads, the ad network operator will get some information
> about your visit when your browser loads the embedded content from those
> servers.
>
> The "monitor" in the name of markmonitor is not a reference to monitoring
> users' web browsing.  Instead, it's part of the name of the company
> MarkMonitor, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, that provides certain
> Internet services mostly to very large companies.
>
> https://www.markmonitor.com/
>
> Their name is supposed to suggest that they can "monitor" their clients'
> trademarks, but not specifically by spying on Internet (or Tor) users'
> web browsing.  It seems that one of their original lines of business was
> letting companies know about trademark infringement on web sites, so that
> MarkMonitor's customers could threaten to sue those web sites' operators.
> They subsequently went into other more infrastructural lines of business.
>
> There was an article a few years ago criticizing the large amount of
> power that MarkMonitor has, but most of that power seems to have arisen
> mainly because it's an infrastructure provider that some very popular
> sites decided to sign up with for various purposes (primarily to register
> Internet domain names, because MarkMonitor's domain name registration
> services make it extremely difficult for somebody else to take over
> control of a domain name illicitly).
>
> The markmonitor.com HTTPS Everywhere rule is one of thousands of HTTPS
> Everywhere rules, and its goal is solely to make sure that if you're
> visiting a web page hosted at (or loading content from) markmonitor.com
> itself, that your browser's connection to markmonitor.com's servers will
> be a secure HTTPS connection instead of an insecure HTTP connection.  It
> is not trying to give any additional information to those servers or to
> cause your browser to connect to those servers when it would not
> otherwise have done so.
>
> (You can see the rule itself in the atlas link toward the beginning of
> my message, and see that its effect is to rewrite some http:// links into
> corresponding https:// links, just like other HTTPS Everywhere rules do.)
>
> Having HTTPS Everywhere rules that relate to a site does not necessarily
> mean that your browser has ever visited that site or will ever visit
> that site.  We've tried to make this clear because many of the rules
> do relate to controversial or unpopular sites, or sites that somebody
> could disagree with or be unhappy about in some way.  Each rule just
> tries to make your connection more secure if and when you as the end
> user of HTTPS Everywhere decide to visit a site that loads content from
> the servers in question.
>
> You can disable the markmonitor.com HTTPS Everywhere rule from within the
> Enable/Disable Rules menu -- but that won't stop your web browser from
> loading things from markmonitor.com's servers if and when you visit pages
> that refer to content that's hosted on those servers.  It will just stop
> HTTPS Eveyrwhere from rewriting that access to take place over HTTPS URLs.
>
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