Detecting trackers and unsollicited cookies

We have now started tracking the trackers. Detection for Google Analytics IDs and Meta (facebook) Pixel IDs has just moved to production and. In time others will follow. You can get a nice overview of all your trackers with these queries:

index=websites by google_analytics_id
index=websites by met_pixel_id

Also new is that we now track which websites set a cookie on the initial load. This is useful for anyone in Europe since the cookie law requires websites to ask users for permission before placing a cookie. European users should make a custom report with this query:

index=websites http_cookie_on_load=1 OR https_cookie_on_load=1 
| table url ip http_cookie_on_load  https_cookie_on_load last_seen

Another new check is if a website uses HTPP Basic Authentication. Check your websites with:

index=websites http_basic_authentication=1 
OR https_basic_authentication=1 

Some of you might have noticed that the preferred search syntax for ShadowTrackr queries has slowly been moving from Elastic Search style to Splunk style. Since this week the autocomplete in the search bar by default suggests Splunk style queries first.