wilanderMar 13
I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team at Apple! We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. It's systems programming in C++ and Swift and the team is local to Cupertino. Please retoot so that people looking for a new job can see this. 🙏🏼 https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200651137-3401/webkit-privacy-adtech-engineer
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Show threadAlex RosenbergMar 13
@wilander Start by detecting CNAMEs that map to known trackers, like Adobe does.
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@alexr See this 2020 blog post by yours truly: https://webkit.org/blog/11338/cname-cloaking-and-bounce-tracking-defense/
CNAME Cloaking and Bounce Tracking Defense

This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in Safari 14 on macOS Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave, iOS 14, and iPadOS 14 to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.

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Show threadAlex RosenbergMar 14
@wilander Safari doesn’t seem to notice Apple’s own trackers, which used to be CNAMEs for Adobe but have since changed.