An Interactive Website on Web Tracking

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Hello everybody,I want to show you a personal project I worked on last year.My idea was to create a website that shows non-techies how widespread web tracking is and to communicate that with interactive visualizations.The result is a website with a visualization dashboard and three blog posts on a personally crawled dataset (~900 websites crawled with OpenWPM). The first blog post explains web tracking, cookie tracking, and cookie syncing. The second blog post shows and analyzes the emerging (and to the user invisible) tracking networks. A third blog post shows the effects of protection mechanisms (default mechanism) and protection with an ad blocker (uBlock Origin). After reading the blog p

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Website: whoistrackingyou.com