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Organization Categories
Yahoo! 4
Amazon.com 3
33Across 2
Admicro 2
Adobe 2
AdOn Network 2
Akamai 2
AOL 2
AT Internet 2
Automattic 2
BV! MEDIA 2
comScore 2
Facebook 2
Google 2
Hearst 2
I-Behavior 2
IBM 2
LivePerson 2
Microsoft 2
Nielsen 2
Oracle 2
Prime Visibility 2
QuinStreet 2
QUISMA 2
TrackingSoft 2
WPP 2
Name Count Advertising Analytics Content Disconnect Social
Yahoo! 4 true true true false true
Amazon.com 3 true true true false false
33Across 2 true false true false false
Adobe 2 true false true false false
Akamai 2 true false true false false
AOL 2 true false true false false
AT Internet 2 true true false false false
Automattic 2 false true true false false
comScore 2 true true false false false
Facebook 2 false false true true false
Google 2 false false true true false
Hearst 2 true true false false false
IBM 2 true true false false false
LivePerson 2 false true true false false
Microsoft 2 true false true false false
Nielsen 2 true true false false false
Oracle 2 true false true false false
QuinStreet 2 true true false false false
TrackingSoft 2 true true false false false
WPP 2 true true false false false
35 changes: 28 additions & 7 deletions report/report.lyx
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\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
One of the most popular privacy tools is Disconnect, which blocks tracking
One of the most popular privacy tools is Disconnect.me, which blocks tracking
sites by running as a browser plugin.
Disconnect was started by ex-Google engineers, and still seems to have
close ties to Google as the own domain disconnect.me is listed as a Google
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\begin_layout Standard
The Disconnect software lets users block/unblock loading resources from
specific third-party domains.
The dataset from 2014-09-08 has a list of
specific third-party domains and domain categories.
The dataset (2014-09-08) has a list of
\begin_inset ERT
status open

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\end_inset

organizations, which come with a link to their webpage.
There is also a grouping into categories, here shown with some examples.
Worth noting is that the content category is not blocked by default.
There is also a grouping into categories - see description and examples
later in this chapter.
Worth noting is that the content category is
\emph on
not
\emph default
blocked by default.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
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\begin_layout Standard
Some organizations are represented in more than one of the five Disconnect
categories.
Organizations represented in the content category may be blocked in part
- but by serving content, they can achieve at least partial tracking.
Yahoo has several ad services, several social services, several content
services and a single analytics service, putting them in four categories.
At least one organization, Google, is misrepresented in the categories;
the special Disconnect category contains both their advertisement and analytics
service domains
\begin_inset CommandInset ref
LatexCommand eqref
reference "sub:Disconnect-category"

\end_inset

.
See table
\begin_inset CommandInset ref
LatexCommand ref
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columns/0/.style={string type, column type=l}}
tsvtable{disconnect.organizations-in-more-than-one-category.tsv}{}{string
replace*={true}{x}, string replace*={false}{}, display columns/0/.style={string
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string type, column type=c}, display columns/5/.style={string type, column
type=c}, display columns/6/.style={string type, column type=c}}
\end_layout

\end_inset
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