#webtracking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #webtracking, aggregated by home.social.
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Are you fucking kidding me, #DeutscheBahn?
Das Verhalten meines Browsers ähnelt vielleicht dem eines #Bots?
Das heißt, dass Bots offenbar #datenschutzaffin sind. -
Are you fucking kidding me, #DeutscheBahn?
Das Verhalten meines Browsers ähnelt vielleicht dem eines #Bots?
Das heißt, dass Bots offenbar #datenschutzaffin sind. -
Are you fucking kidding me, #DeutscheBahn?
Das Verhalten meines Browsers ähnelt vielleicht dem eines #Bots?
Das heißt, dass Bots offenbar #datenschutzaffin sind. -
Most users still think clearing cookies protects their privacy.
That is no longer true.
Modern websites use multiple tracking methods including browser fingerprinting, tracking pixels, and behavioral profiling.
I wrote a simple, practical guide explaining how it works and what you can do to reduce it.
https://techputs.com/how-websites-track-you-and-how-to-stop-it/
#Privacy #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #WebTracking #Tech #technology #technews
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Oh, look! Another #groundbreaking scientific article that promises to reveal the secrets of the universe... but only once you've surrendered your browser's soul to #JavaScript and cookies. 🕵️♂️🔮 Because who needs quantum mechanics when you've got web tracking? 🍪🔍
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s149 #science #webtracking #privacy #concerns #quantummechanics #HackerNews #ngated -
MediaPost: Google Settlement Over Kids Privacy Moves Forward. “A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a proposed settlement requiring Google to pay $30 million to resolve class-action claims that it violated children’s privacy by tracking their YouTube activity in order to serve targeted ads.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/25/mediapost-google-settlement-over-kids-privacy-moves-forward/
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Reuters: Google must pay $425m in class action over privacy, jury rules. “A federal jury has determined that Alphabet’s Google must pay $425m for invading users’ privacy by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account.”
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#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel
Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.
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#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel
Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.
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#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel
Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.
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#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel
Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.
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#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel
Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.
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UC Davis: UC Davis Study Reveals Alarming Browser Tracking by GenAI Assistants. “A new study led by computer scientists at the University of California, Davis, reveals that generative AI browser assistants collect and share sensitive data without users’ knowledge. Stronger safeguards, transparency and awareness are needed to protect user privacy online, the researchers said. “
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The Register: Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds . “A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.”
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?. “Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. These findings come as more states are passing data broker transparency laws that require brokers to provide information about their business and, in some cases, give consumers an easy way to opt out.”
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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🖱️ Your mouse movements are being tracked.
Websites can log how fast you scroll, how long you hover, and even how you move your cursor. It’s called mouse fingerprinting, and yes—it’s used to identify you even without cookies.
🧠 Bonus? It can even guess your cognitive load or hesitation.
Disable JavaScript when possible, or use hardened browsers like Librewolf or Tor.
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Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
#HackerNews #WebTracking #BrowserFingerprinting #Privacy #DigitalSecurity #CyberAwareness
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MakeUseOf: Your Inbox Is Full of Trackers: These 4 Extensions Block Them All. “Did you know that most of the emails you receive have a sneaky, secret tracking pixel designed to snoop on you? Whether spam, marketing, or otherwise, these tracking pixels can send information back to the send—unless you install one of these handy tracker pixel blocking extensions.”
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💡Fun fact: Your computer’s battery status API can be used to track you.
Some websites ping battery levels to create a unique fingerprint, even in incognito mode. It’s subtle, creepy—and real.
🛡️ Quick fixes:
• Chrome: Install “Disable Battery API” extension
• Use Brave (built-in protection) or Firefox (already blocks this) -
Sky News: Meta found ‘covertly tracking’ Android users through Instagram and Facebook. “Academics at the Radboud University in the Netherlands and IMDEA Networks said they discovered Meta and Yandex have been tracking Android users’ browser activity without their consent and then using the data in their apps. Meta said it was looking into the issue, while Yandex denied collecting any […]
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How-To Geek: Using Incognito Mode? These 7 Entities Can Still Track You. “There’s a common perception that using private browsing modes makes it so no one can see which sites you’re using, or what you do on them, but the truth is that the only place these modes hide anything is on your own computer. All of these other entities can see exactly where you’re spending time online.”
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NC Newsline: House bill would allow NC consumers to opt out of targeted online ads. “House Bill 462 would allow consumers to confirm whether companies, called ‘controllers’ in the bill, have their personal data. Consumers would be able to obtain their data, have it corrected, or have it deleted. Companies would have to tell consumers what third parties have their personal information. […]
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PC World: Brave browser’s newest tool swats away those annoying cookie pop-ups. “I appreciate and respect what the GDPR was trying to accomplish. The hours of corporate training and ‘please let us track you with cookies, we pinky-promise we need them’ messages that appear on nearly every website? Not so much. Now, the latest version of the Brave browser hopes to get rid of them—the […]
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#GESISGuide #Webtracking
New GESIS Guide published: “Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data”Mangold, F., & Stier, S. (2025). Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 23). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25023.1.0How can web tracking be used as a method for studying digital media use and online behavior? How does web tracking data collections differ from other digital research methods ?
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#GESISGuide #Webtracking
New GESIS Guide published: “Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data”Mangold, F., & Stier, S. (2025). Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 23). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25023.1.0How can web tracking be used as a method for studying digital media use and online behavior? How does web tracking data collections differ from other digital research methods ?
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#GESISGuide #Webtracking
New GESIS Guide published: “Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data”Mangold, F., & Stier, S. (2025). Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 23). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25023.1.0How can web tracking be used as a method for studying digital media use and online behavior? How does web tracking data collections differ from other digital research methods ?
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#GESISGuide #Webtracking
New GESIS Guide published: “Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data”Mangold, F., & Stier, S. (2025). Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 23). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25023.1.0How can web tracking be used as a method for studying digital media use and online behavior? How does web tracking data collections differ from other digital research methods ?
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#GESISGuide #Webtracking
New GESIS Guide published: “Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data”Mangold, F., & Stier, S. (2025). Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 23). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25023.1.0How can web tracking be used as a method for studying digital media use and online behavior? How does web tracking data collections differ from other digital research methods ?
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Munk.org: 24 Hours with Pi-Hole, the Digital Bouncer at the Gate. “Over the past day, devices, computers and phones attached to my network made some 86,000 DNS queries to translate domain names for outside domains into IP addresses that are the actual address the Internet uses to route requests. That’s a *LOT*. The second surprise was to find that over a THIRD of those requests were for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/munk-org-24-hours-with-pi-hole-the-digital-bouncer-at-the-gate/
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#mte #meettheexperts #webtracking #datacollection
New #video on #YouTube:Meet our Experts Dr. Joachim Piepenburg and Dr. Frank Mangold who showcase research that linked surveys and #webtracking, present the data collection infrastructure and introduce how the academic community can participate in the data collections and use the collected data. -
BBC: Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy. “Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online ‘a blatant disregard for user privacy.’ Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/17/bbc-critics-say-new-google-rules-put-profits-over-privacy/
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BBC: Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy. “Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online ‘a blatant disregard for user privacy.’ Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/17/bbc-critics-say-new-google-rules-put-profits-over-privacy/
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Google Analytics introduces Data Layer Tutorial for enhanced web tracking: New video tutorial explains data layer implementation in Google Tag Manager and gag.js for improved website tracking and tag management. https://ppc.land/google-analytics-introduces-data-layer-tutorial-for-enhanced-web-tracking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleAnalytics #DataLayer #WebTracking #TagManager #Gtag
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Lukasz Olejnik: Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting. “While it is possible to use fingerprinting in line with laws like the EU GDPR and ePrivacy, big technology platforms had set higher standards. This shift arrives at a time when data demands—fueled by AI developments—are intensifying. The 2024 opinion of the European Data Protection […]
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#Call for Research Proposals: Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the New GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample:
Participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections within the GESIS Panel.dbd. -
#Privacy #DataProtection #WebTracking #WebXray: "A lot of this leaking data is not just potentially embarrassing, or perhaps harmful to career prospects if it were to be made public, but outright illegal. Over the past half-decade, the European Union, a number of US states, and other governments around the world have enacted laws that restrict what kind of data websites can collect, or require a company to receive consent from a user before it does so. Every day, tech companies may violate those laws when, say, search engines and medical websites trample HIPAA by allowing search logs of users’ ailments to be tracked, documented, and sometimes monetized by companies like Google, or running roughshod over consent rules by turning a blind eye to advertising cookies embedded in publishers’ websites.
This, Libert says, is why he developed WebXray, a crude prototype of which he’s demoing for me right now. It’s a search engine for rooting out specific privacy violations anywhere on the web. By searching for a specific term or website, you can use WebXray to see which sites are tracking you, and where all that data goes. Its mission, he says, is simple; “I want to give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators.” To level the playing field.
On Thursday, Libert plans to launch the website to the public, so anyone can get a sense of how sprawling the web of privacy violations being made every day really is, along with a premium tier for regulators and attorneys, who can use the tool to assess those violations and address them. Libert knows a thing or two about both search engines and digital privacy. Until last year, he was a staff engineer on the privacy team at Google, which is of course the operator of the largest search engine in the world—and the largest collector of data of the billions of people who use it."
https://www.wired.com/story/webxray-online-privacy-violations/
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#USA #USPS #DataProtection #Privacy #WebTracking: "In our testing, TechCrunch discovered that the USPS website shared the postal address of a logged-in USPS Informed Delivery customer with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap. TechCrunch tested this by inspecting the network traffic using tools baked into most modern browsers.
Our testing showed the data-collecting code on USPS’ website was scraping the customer’s address from the Informed Delivery landing page after customers logged in, and then sending it to the companies.
The code also collected other data, such as information about the user’s computer type and browser, which appeared as partly pseudonymized — essentially scrambled in a way that makes it more difficult for humans to know where data came from, or who it relates to, by using randomized identifiers in place of real customer names. But researchers have long warned that pseudonymous data can still be used to re-identify seemingly anonymous individuals.
TechCrunch also found that tracking numbers entered into the USPS website were also shared with advertisers and tech companies, including Bing, Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snap. Some in-transit tracking data was also shared, such as the real-world location of the mail in the postal system, even if the customer was not logged in to USPS’ website."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/usps-shared-customer-postal-addresses-with-meta-linkedin-and-snap/
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#Privacy #Surveillance #WebTracking #Google #DataProtection #GoogleChrome: "After years of growing criticism over invasive ad tracking, Google announced in September 2023 that it would phase out third-party cookies from its Chrome browser . Since then, users have been gradually tricked into enabling a supposed “ad privacy feature” that actually tracks people. While the so-called “Privacy Sandbox” is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the tracking is now simply done within the browser by Google itself. To do this, the company theoretically needs the same informed consent from users. Instead, Google is tricking people by pretending to “Turn on an ad privacy feature”. noyb has therefore filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority."
https://noyb.eu/en/google-sandbox-online-tracking-instead-privacy
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1066-5119-91e0-1db621337591
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1066-5119-91e0-1db621337591
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1066-5119-91e0-1db621337591
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1066-5119-91e0-1db621337591
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#Google #BigTech #Privacy #Chrome #WebTracking #Surveillance #DataProtection: "Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s incognito mode.
Users alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode.
Plaintiffs said letting Google had an ‘unaccountable trove of information’ from learning about what they seek out online.
They said this turned Google into an “unaccountable trove of information” by letting it learn about their friends, favorite foods, hobbies, shopping habits and the “most intimate and potentially embarrassing things” they hunt for online.
Terms of the settlement were filed on Monday in the Oakland, California, federal court, and require approval by US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The class action began in 2020, covering millions of Google users who used private browsing since 1 June 2016.
Under the settlement, Google will update disclosures about what it collects in “private” browsing, a process it has already begun. It will also let incognito users block third-party cookies for five years." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/01/google-destroying-browsing-data-privacy-lawsuit
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Distrust of 'mainstream' media has led to the rise of hyperpartisan sources for political information. But who are the consumers of these sources? How are alternative media websites interconnected, and what content do they present?
Read this paper by Pu Yan (Peking University) and Ralph Schroeder (@oiioxford) via Weizenbaum Journal:
➡ https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.2.2
#populism #media #mediaattention #webtracking #socialscience #wjds #openaccess #fakenews @WZB_Berlin @FOKUSpublic
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#technology article section.
What is web tracking?
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/technology/display/al_tech_what_is_web_tracking
#privacy #webtracking #cookies #analytics #thirdparty #web #tech #privacybadger #ublockorigin #education #techeducation #india #surfingnet #browsing #socialmedia #datarobing #datatheft #browsesafe #learn #cyberlearning #cyberethics #ethics
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
#privacy is worth fighting.
Somethings are meant to be taken, no one will give it for #free