ADBLK-3: Block swa.and.co.uk

Issue Information

Issue Type: Improvement
 
Priority: Major
Status: Closed

Reported By:
Ben Tasker
Assigned To:
Ben Tasker
Project: Adblock Lists (ADBLK)
Resolution: Done (2019-06-09 14:45:53)

Created: 2019-06-09 14:23:47
Time Spent Working


Description
Noticed this whilst doing some work on the Anti-AMP scripts (which meant I ended up on the Daily Mail...)

Hitting one of their news stories results in a request like this 
https://swa.and.co.uk/b/ss/anddailymailprod/1/H.26/s22702968394192?AQB=1&ndh=1&t=9%2F5%2F2019%2014%3A15%3A14%200%20-60&fid=52055774D5077687-34E7E5AFA2E28913&ce=UTF-8&ns=associatednorthcliffedigital&cdp=3&pageName=%2Fnews%2Farticle&g=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-7120893%2FJeremy-Clarkson-complains-road-closed-following-fatal-crash-west-London.html&r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&c.&gdprbannerstatus=ENABLED&fesbv=3.41.0&feabv=5.10.2&vbv=5.19.1&tag=fe_mobile_default&electrostatic=electrostatic-12.4.0&.c&ch=dailymail.co.uk&events=event2%2Cevent25&c1=%2Fnews&v1=D%3Dc1&c2=%2Fnews&v2=D%3Dc2&c4=article&v4=D%3Dc4&c5=jeremy%20clarkson%20complains%20about%20a%20road%20being%20closed%20following%20a%20fatal%20crash%20in%20west%20london%C2%A0&v5=D%3Dc5&c6=7120893&v6=D%3Dc6&c11=Logged%20Out&v11=D%3DpageName&v12=D%3Dch&c13=%2Fnews%2Farticle&c14=New&v14=New&c15=%2Fnews%2Farticle&v21=D%3Dc23&v22=D%3Dc24&c23=2019-06-09&v23=D%3Dc25&c24=10&c25=Danyal%20Hussain%20For%20Mailonline&v25=D%3Dc27&v26=D%3Dc28&c27=2019-06-09&v27=D%3Dc29&c28=14&c29=www.bing.com&v29=D%3Dc31&v30=D%3Dc32&c31=%2Fnews%2Farticle&c32=%2Fnews%2Farticle&v33=D%3Dc39&c37=GB&c44=D%3Dg&c46=electrostatic-12.4.0&c47=adBlocker%20off&v49=%21-%21EXT%21-%21&v50=D%3Dg&c51=Page%20Reloaded&c53=%2Fnews%5E%2Fnews%5Earticle&v54=NoInstart&c57=46101631&v57=D%3Dc57&v58=Guest&c59=1%5E1%5E1&v59=D%3Dc59&c65=Mobile&v65=Mobile&v70=b&h2=dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews&s=1920x1080&c=24&j=1.6&v=N&k=Y&bw=1920&bh=942&p=Shockwave%20Flash%3B&AQE=1


Which is fairly obviously an analytics link (you can see I hit the page from Bing news for example).

At time of writing, the domain swa.and.co.uk is served only via HTTPS, and serves an empty page at the document root.

It CNAME's out to 2o7.net: 
ben@milleniumfalcon:~$ host swa.and.co.uk
swa.and.co.uk is an alias for and.co.uk.102.122.2o7.net.
and.co.uk.102.122.2o7.net has address 130.248.129.118


2o7 are known trackers - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/that-mysterious-2o7-net-tracking-cookie-all-you-need-to-know/ - and are blocked in easylist.

Adding a block of *.and.co.uk


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Activity


2019-06-09 14:26:46

Repo: adblocklists
Commit: 7a029e1cc4f287333b1f4a88b84439d2ac271017
Author: B Tasker <github@<Domain Hidden>>

Date: Sun Jun 09 14:24:23 2019 +0100
Commit Message: Block .and.co.uk - see ADBLK-3



Modified (-)(+)
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config/manualzones.txt




*Webhook User-Agent 

GitHub-Hookshot/d408d22


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2019-06-09 14:44:46

Repo: adblocklists
Commit: 2c58ecfb3c0e425df55ecdbcdca4bfed369e4378
Author: B Tasker <github@<Domain Hidden>>

Date: Sun Jun 09 14:43:36 2019 +0100
Commit Message: Block swa.metro.co.uk

This domain is identical in behaviour to the domain blocked in ADBLK-3 

ben@milleniumfalcon:~/Documents/src.old/adblock_lists$ host swa.metro.co.uk
swa.metro.co.uk is an alias for metro.co.uk.102.122.2o7.net.
metro.co.uk.102.122.2o7.net has address 130.248.129.181


Also explicitly blocking the zone 2o7.net so that Pi-Hole's consuming my lists should stop resolving anything that's cnamed out to 2o7.net



Modified (-)(+)
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config/manualblock.txt
config/manualzones.txt




Webhook User-Agent 

GitHub-Hookshot/d408d22


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2019-06-09 14:45:53
btasker changed status from 'Open' to 'Resolved'

2019-06-09 14:45:53
btasker added 'Done' to resolution

2019-06-09 14:45:57
btasker changed status from 'Resolved' to 'Closed'

2019-06-09 15:00:46

Repo: adblocklists
Commit: 233926f467d7a46f0d94f14203c8564e4e88eece
Author: B Tasker <github@<Domain Hidden>>

Date: Sun Jun 09 14:59:12 2019 +0100
Commit Message: ADBLK-3 Explicitly include swa.and.co.uk in the manualblock so that it makes it into pi-hole (pity Gravity lists can't be wildcarded)



Modified (-)(+)
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config/manualpages.txt




Webhook User-Agent 

GitHub-Hookshot/d408d22


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2019-06-09 15:02:46

Repo: adblocklists
Commit: 2cf542bd9aa067d4d7c7a516a74fce01b4a3d3ea
Author: B Tasker <github@<Domain Hidden>>

Date: Sun Jun 09 15:01:10 2019 +0100
Commit Message: ADBLK-3 Explicitly block the CNAME targets too, again for pi-hole's benefit



Modified (-)(+)
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config/manualblock.txt




Webhook User-Agent 

GitHub-Hookshot/d408d22


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