Verification / evolution of "Internet Jones" paper

[birdsarah]

Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers: An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016 - a 2016 paper from USENIX - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/lerner

It contains a number of interesting metrics to describe tracking over time. While the OverScripted dataset does not have sufficient data to compare for all metrics, there may be some that we can reproduce and so continue the evolution of the data presented in the paper.

[asquare14]

I'm interested in this issue !

[birdsarah]

Great! Just to re-emphasize this is not a one issue per person repo. All the questions are very open ended and different people may find very different and complementary things when looking at a question.

[dardecena]

I'm also interested in this issue.

[asquare14]

@birdsarah I'm presently reading the paper mentioned in the link. Could you please tell me what should my goals be while I am read the paper ?
What sort of contributions are expected on this issue and how do I go about it ?

[birdsarah]

The Internet Jones paper documents, amongst other things, incidence of fingerprinting. I believe (although I may be wrong so don't hesitate to check in) that we can replicate their methodology and get an incidence rate that we can then compare to their research and continue their presentation of a longitudinal trend.

Aside from doing this I would encourage you to think critically about this idea / methodology. The data was collected differently. Does that matter? In what ways? What other differences might there be? etc.

[asquare14]

Thanks so much :) That was very helpful. What do you mean by incidence rate though ?

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 4:37 PM Sarah Bird ***@***.***> wrote: The Internet Jones paper documents, amongst other things, incidence of fingerprinting. I believe (although I may be wrong so don't hesitate to check in) that we can replicate their methodology and get an incidence rate that we can then compare to their research and continue their presentation of a longitudinal trend. Aside from doing this I would encourage you to think critically about this idea / methodology. The data was collected differently. Does that matter? In what ways? What other differences might there be? etc. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#26 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AV4EVQeTiIVr5kIasUqwe0-d6_IuUCrcks5vWi1vgaJpZM4ZZRfz> .

[birdsarah]

@asquare14 not a great choice of language on my part I apologize. I mean prevalence. (Incidence it turns out is a hold over from my public health days which I didn't even realized I'd picked up).

[noahwalugembe]

How do i make a pull request for a non code contribution?
In order to resolve this issue i have written an essay and i would like to make a pull request for it