Google analytics integrated in to Chrome
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Did you actually visit the link?
chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript?secret=lef6ooqidsb6
chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript?secret=lef6ooqidsb6
(function() {
// https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/
var noopfn = function() {
;
};
var noopnullfn = function() {
return null;
};
//
var Tracker = function() {
;
};
var p = Tracker.prototype;
p.get = noopfn;
p.set = noopfn;
p.send = noopfn;
//
var w = window,
gaName = w.GoogleAnalyticsObject || 'ga';
var ga = function() {
var len = arguments.length;
if ( len === 0 ) {
return;
}
var f = arguments[len-1];
if ( typeof f !== 'object' || f === null || typeof f.hitCallback !== 'function' ) {
return;
}
try {
f.hitCallback();
} catch (ex) {
}
};
ga.create = function() {
return new Tracker();
};
ga.getByName = noopnullfn;
ga.getAll = function() {
return [];
};
ga.remove = noopfn;
w[gaName] = ga;
// https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3075
var dl = w.dataLayer;
if ( dl instanceof Object && dl.hide instanceof Object && typeof dl.hide.end === 'function' ) {
dl.hide.end();
}
})();
That is uBlock Origin intercepting the request and responding with a no-op version of analytics.jsThat is a uBlock Origin internal stub to prevent sites that rely on Analytics being there from throwing an error and stop working.
See here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/415820d7561a5cb...
See here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/415820d7561a5cb...
> Response Headers Location: chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript?secret=lef6ooqidsb6
Looks like it's loading Google Analytics from an extension you have installed.
If you lookup the ID cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm in the Chrome web store, you'll see that that's the ID for uBlock Origin.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
If you download the CRX file, extract it, and check the file ./web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript (the one being loaded) you'll see that it's just a stub; probably designed as a substitute for Google Analytics that doesn't actually send any analytics data but still defines a few necessary functions to avoid breaking sites which rely on them.
Looks like it's loading Google Analytics from an extension you have installed.
If you lookup the ID cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm in the Chrome web store, you'll see that that's the ID for uBlock Origin.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
If you download the CRX file, extract it, and check the file ./web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript (the one being loaded) you'll see that it's just a stub; probably designed as a substitute for Google Analytics that doesn't actually send any analytics data but still defines a few necessary functions to avoid breaking sites which rely on them.
The request never reached google-analytics.com, it was redirected by uBlock Origin to a local neutered script, to minimize page breakage.
Often web pages break because they were created as if network requests to google-analytics.com can never fail, and using a neutered script to expose a dummy API prevents such breakage most of the time.
End result: no need to whitelist google-analytics.com to un-break a page.
Often web pages break because they were created as if network requests to google-analytics.com can never fail, and using a neutered script to expose a dummy API prevents such breakage most of the time.
End result: no need to whitelist google-analytics.com to un-break a page.
Maybe some addon is using it?
Service worker?
Have I been living under a rock or is this something new?
I use Firefox for all personal stuff, and Chrome for random browsing.
General Request URL: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js Request Method: GET Status Code: 307 Internal Redirect Referrer Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Response Headers Location: chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/web_accessible_resources/59fb24a2d12455d15bea20980e8a6801.javascript?secret=lef6ooqidsb6 Non-Authoritative-Reason: Delegate Provisional headers are shown
Request Headers Referer: https://www.engadget.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.162 Safari/537.36