Today I received a very polite (and embarrassing for me) email from David Cancel who is the author of the excellent Ghostery add-on that inspired Ad Hacker. I had copied a handful of his rules for finding web bugs into Ad Hacker for my initial testing, and I had not re-written them yet and they were now running in the wild.
Of course I immediately removed his rules and wrote a new set from scratch, which also gave me a great acid test for the new Ad Hacker Rule Manager
Sooooo... the hunt is on! I've already walked down the top 25 sites in Alexa and found most of the web bugs on their homepages. If you'd like to help I'd really appreciate it :)
To join in (and assuming you use Firefox) download Ad Hacker and visit your favorite sites. On each site click the Ad Hacker "watcher" link, then "Javascript from N servers", then a domain name, then script URL, and then finally "Add rule for this Javascript". This will fire up a web page to edit your new web bug rule. If you'd like your rules to be included in the default package Ad Hacker uses fire me an email at feedback@adhacker.com
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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