False positive on theconversation.com image hosting

[TJC]

Hello, I've noticed that image hosting from theconversation.com is being falsely detected as a tracker.

https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar/blob/main/domains/US/theconversation.com.json

The Conversation is a research-based journalism site which releases articles under the creative commons license. Other websites may copy the articles and republish them. When doing so, they often also copy the <img> tags as well, which point back to the image hosting on theconversation.com. This explains why the images may have been falsely detected as trackers.

Is there anything we can do to get these taken off the list?

[muodov]

@TJC thanks for reaching out. Just being in the tracker-radar dataset doesn't mean that the domain will be blocked as a tracker. Do you have specific examples of sites where DuckDuckGo browsers or extensions incorrectly block requests to this domain?

[TJC]

I came across the DDG tracker-radar while investigating reports of issues with some of our articles that sound like resources being blocked by privacy extensions. The reports I get are second-hand, but I'll try and reproduce with the DDG browser.

[TJC]

Checking a few sites using one of the images referenced in the JSON file above, the images are loading fine in the DDG browser.

I don't know.. is it still worth trying to do something about our image hosting being detected as a potential tracker, or not so much?