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Thu Jul 3 22:56:34 UTC 2014

Another inidentified URI in TBB: rev-213.189.48.245.atman.pl . Check
this,please. Nor in Whois

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, ideas buenas <ideasbuenas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another example is this   s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com    OR
> edge-star-shv-08-gru1.facebook.com  OR
> ec2-54-225-215-244.compute-1.amazonaws.com   everyone resolving to
> markmonitor.com
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:19 PM, ideas buenas <ideasbuenas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Seth Schoen  <schoen at eff.org>
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