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WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking — mentioned by omgmajk

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:36:43 GMT

This was a very interesting read for me: "WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking (2018)" https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08959 Also this one: "The Internet (Never) Forgets (2017) PDF" https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&con...

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WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking — mentioned by __ka

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:39:03 GMT

> 1) Trackers Stats. This feature is powered by another project we run, where we measure the tracking landscape in the web (most popular domains): https://whotracks.me. Details on how that works can be found in our paper [0]. Also - we are flirting with the idea of providing a mode where the ranking is informed by the trackers in the destination site. Would love to hear your thoughts on whether you'd like smth like this. > 2) Page previews (I'm not sure about whether I like that) At the moment it's only a placeholder for a lengthier title and description (if available), but we are planning to…

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WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking — mentioned by kkm

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:09:44 GMT

There is also a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08959 WhoTracks.Me: Monitoring the online tracking landscape at scale Arjaldo Karaj, Sam Macbeth, Rémi Berson, Josep M. Pujol (Submitted on 24 Apr 2018) We present the largest and longest measurement of online tracking to date based on real users. The data, which is made publicly available, is generated from more than 780 million page loads over the course of the last 10 months. Previous attempts to measure the tracking ecosystem, are done via measurement platforms that do not interact with websites the same way a user does. We instrument a…

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