{"id":132,"date":"2014-10-25T05:53:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2014-10-29T04:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T04:34:58","slug":"no-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/2014\/10\/25\/no-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net\/","title":{"rendered":"No Verizon tracking at hort.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"share_buttons_simple_use_buttons\" style=\"padding: 10px 0; display: inline-block\"><div class=\"tweet_button\" style=\"float: left; vertical-align: top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/2014\/10\/25\/no-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net\/\" data-text=\"No Verizon tracking at hort.net\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"facebook_like_button\" style=\"float: left; vertical-align: top; margin-left: 10px; max-width: 255px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hort.net%2Ftechblog%2F2014%2F10%2F25%2Fno-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=25\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-two-third\">We&#8217;re pretty horrified by the recent revelation that Verizon is <a title=\"Verizon tracking customers' web habits\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/10\/verizon-wireless-injects-identifiers-link-its-users-to-web-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\">adding tracking codes to its customers&#8217; web browsing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verizon claims that this code is in a database that doesn&#8217;t get shared, but that&#8217;s not good enough. As the article we linked to mentions, any site that can tie a user&#8217;s personal information to that tracking code can sell that information and a database can be constructed. At that point, <em>any<\/em> traffic from a phone, even if run in a private or incognito mode, can be tied to the phone&#8217;s owner by the site that&#8217;s being visited unless the site use the HTTPS protocol.<\/p>\n<p>We strongly advise that sites disable this header on their systems. At hort.net we have set this Apache directive:<\/p>\n<div class=\"horttech-code\">\n<pre class=\"preserve-code-formatting\">RequestHeader unset X_UIDH early\nRequestHeader unset HTTP_X_UIDH early\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>This ensures that the tracking code will be removed before any of our scripts run, so we won&#8217;t be able to tie Verizon&#8217;s tracking to any of our visitors (even accidentally).<\/p>\n<p>If you use Verizon, try to only connect to sites using the HTTPS protocol (secure web sites) or ones that are known to remove that tracker.<\/p>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-third ezcol-last\">\n<div id=\"attachment_139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-image-139 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/can-communication-conversation-362-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tin can on a string\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" id=\"campaign-icon\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/can-communication-conversation-362-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/can-communication-conversation-362-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What Verizon users may have to do to in the future to communicate safely.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"share_buttons_simple_use_buttons\" style=\"padding: 10px 0; display: inline-block\"><div class=\"tweet_button\" style=\"float: left; vertical-align: top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/2014\/10\/25\/no-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net\/\" data-text=\"No Verizon tracking at hort.net\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"facebook_like_button\" style=\"float: left; vertical-align: top; margin-left: 10px; max-width: 255px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hort.net%2Ftechblog%2F2014%2F10%2F25%2Fno-verizon-tracking-at-hort-net%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=25\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>Tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,7],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-privacy","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}