See https://chartbeat.com/faq/what-is-ping-chartbeat-net for what I think you are seeing - website analytics.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014, at 11:56 PM, ideas buenas wrote: > Another inidentified URI in TBB: rev-213.189.48.245.atman.pl . Check > this,please. Nor in Whois > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, ideas buenas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Another example is this s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com OR > > edge-star-shv-08-gru1.facebook.com OR > > ec2-54-225-215-244.compute-1.amazonaws.com everyone resolving to > > markmonitor.com > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:19 PM, ideas buenas <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> I'm not referring to this.I'm talking of a lot of URI that appears when I > >> try to link to any site. Every one of those Remote Address start with a > >> couple o letters followed by numbers like this: > >> server-54-230-83-145.mia50.r.cloudfront.net . > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> ideas buenas writes: > >>> > >>> > Why is markmonitor.com and its derivates in my TBB? How can I do to > >>> delete > >>> > this ? Are they watching me? > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Are you talking about seeing a markmonitor.com rule in the HTTPS > >>> Everywhere > >>> Enable/Disable Rules menu? > >>> > >>> https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/domains/markmonitor.com.html > >>> > >>> If so, this is one of thousands of HTTPS Everywhere rewrite rules that > >>> are included with HTTPS Everywhere, which is included with the Tor > >>> Browser Bundle. The goal of HTTPS Everywhere and its rewrite rules > >>> is to automatically access as many sites as possible with secure HTTPS > >>> connections. > >>> > >>> HTTPS Everywhere typically does not make your browser access sites or > >>> services that it would not otherwise have accessed, so it shouldn't help > >>> sites monitor your web browsing if they would otherwise not have been > >>> able to. There are definitely lots of sites that can monitor some > >>> aspects > >>> of your web browsing because the site operator has included content > >>> loaded > >>> from those sites in their web page (so your browser automatically > >>> retrieves > >>> that content when you visit the page that embedded the content). For > >>> example, there are ad networks whose ads are embedded in thousands or > >>> millions of different sites, and if you visit any of those sites without > >>> blocking those ads, the ad network operator will get some information > >>> about your visit when your browser loads the embedded content from those > >>> servers. > >>> > >>> The "monitor" in the name of markmonitor is not a reference to monitoring > >>> users' web browsing. Instead, it's part of the name of the company > >>> MarkMonitor, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, that provides certain > >>> Internet services mostly to very large companies. > >>> > >>> https://www.markmonitor.com/ > >>> > >>> Their name is supposed to suggest that they can "monitor" their clients' > >>> trademarks, but not specifically by spying on Internet (or Tor) users' > >>> web browsing. It seems that one of their original lines of business was > >>> letting companies know about trademark infringement on web sites, so that > >>> MarkMonitor's customers could threaten to sue those web sites' operators. > >>> They subsequently went into other more infrastructural lines of business. > >>> > >>> There was an article a few years ago criticizing the large amount of > >>> power that MarkMonitor has, but most of that power seems to have arisen > >>> mainly because it's an infrastructure provider that some very popular > >>> sites decided to sign up with for various purposes (primarily to register > >>> Internet domain names, because MarkMonitor's domain name registration > >>> services make it extremely difficult for somebody else to take over > >>> control of a domain name illicitly). > >>> > >>> The markmonitor.com HTTPS Everywhere rule is one of thousands of HTTPS > >>> Everywhere rules, and its goal is solely to make sure that if you're > >>> visiting a web page hosted at (or loading content from) markmonitor.com > >>> itself, that your browser's connection to markmonitor.com's servers will > >>> be a secure HTTPS connection instead of an insecure HTTP connection. It > >>> is not trying to give any additional information to those servers or to > >>> cause your browser to connect to those servers when it would not > >>> otherwise have done so. > >>> > >>> (You can see the rule itself in the atlas link toward the beginning of > >>> my message, and see that its effect is to rewrite some http:// links > >>> into > >>> corresponding https:// links, just like other HTTPS Everywhere rules > >>> do.) > >>> > >>> Having HTTPS Everywhere rules that relate to a site does not necessarily > >>> mean that your browser has ever visited that site or will ever visit > >>> that site. We've tried to make this clear because many of the rules > >>> do relate to controversial or unpopular sites, or sites that somebody > >>> could disagree with or be unhappy about in some way. Each rule just > >>> tries to make your connection more secure if and when you as the end > >>> user of HTTPS Everywhere decide to visit a site that loads content from > >>> the servers in question. > >>> > >>> You can disable the markmonitor.com HTTPS Everywhere rule from within > >>> the > >>> Enable/Disable Rules menu -- but that won't stop your web browser from > >>> loading things from markmonitor.com's servers if and when you visit > >>> pages > >>> that refer to content that's hosted on those servers. It will just stop > >>> HTTPS Eveyrwhere from rewriting that access to take place over HTTPS > >>> URLs. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Seth Schoen <[email protected]> > >>> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ > >>> Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join > >>> 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 > >>> -- > >>> tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > >>> To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > >>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > >>> > >> > >> > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
