Ars Accelerator by Ars Technica/Condé Nast (dff7tx5c2qbxc.cloudfront.net)
“The Accelerator, a platform that predicts when a story is going to blow up and enables advertisers to exploit it. The Accelerator has been in use for the past year by Wired and sibling pub Ars Technica, the latter of which created the platform.” – Source
Dear Ars, if you’re going to build a tracker, at least do it well. This is a bit embarrassing, don’t you think? – Ed.
Ethical design violations
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tracker
Monetises you.
Block rule
Block domain dff7tx5c2qbxc.cloudfront.net
dff7tx5c2qbxc.cloudfront.net
Prevalence
undefined: found on undefined surveyed site.
Notes
This tracker does not identify itself as belonging to Ars Technica or Condé Nast.
When one of the observed URLs in the wild is followed (e.g., 1:New Yorker or 2:Wired.com, it leads to output identifying the tracker as Ars Accelerator:
CN.ad.arsaccelerator.kws = [];
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