On: Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users

[ben1040]

For what it's worth, this article is 2 weeks old and it seems Verizon may have either stopped this or is now respecting opt-outs. I'm curious if others are seeing this.

While I was definitely getting that header added to my outbound traffic two weeks ago, it is not happening to me now. I noticed that a day or two ago, and it still seems to be the case now.

[sehugg → ben1040]

Nope, they haven't stopped. Reduced a bit, maybe. I'm seeing maybe 5-6% of our HTTP traffic with the X-UIDH header instead of 10% two weeks ago.

AT&T's x-acr header, though, seems to be gone, as others have reported. They were about 0.5% of our traffic.

[vonklaus → sehugg]

How can I check for this?

[sehugg → vonklaus]

If you have a server? I use ngrep.

[bcl → vonklaus]

Read the article. Click the link. It will tell you what tracking id I got.

[gojomo → ben1040]

Sometimes the X-UIDH header goes away, but then returns a day or two later – so don't trust any one all-clear check as resolving the issue.

[joshu → ben1040]

Just checked, I am still transmitting the X-Uidh header.

[yclept → ben1040]

My phone is still sending this stalking header.