On: Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

[philliphaydon]

So if the script comes from the owners site instead of Google. And all the rest requests are proxied via the owners site. Would this not result in people forking a browser that looks at http requests before they are packaged and issued to remove tracking data or block the request?

[bgdam → philliphaydon]

And how do you differentiate between a request that is sending over tracking data and a request that is sending over data required to fetch the page you requested?

[tgv → bgdam]

It would seem easier to identify data patterns than script content. After all, tracking is only useful if the data is consistent.