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<h3><a href="./blog/updating_our_tracking_prevalence_metrics.html">Updating our tracking prevalence metrics</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="./blog/government_websites_september.html">Government websites</a></h3>
<p>If you are not the product, you're the taxpayer</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/gdpr-what-happened.html">GDPR - What happened?</a></h3>
<p>The tracking landscape post GDPR, adverse effects on competition and a market for compliance technologies</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/block-third-party-cookies.html">Third-party cookies - the guests who won't leave</a></h3>
<p>How the web ecosystem is preventing us from reverting the third-party cookie mistake.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/update_jun_2018.html">June Update - Do you consent?</a></h3>
<p>The rushed, rough and rogue UX of services getting you to opt-in.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/tracker-tax.html">Tracker Tax</a></h3>
<p>The impact of third-party trackers on website speed in the United States.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/update_may_2018.html">May Update - Countdown to GDPR</a></h3>
<p>Facebook's "Tough" month and Google's recommendation</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/private_analytics.html">Tracking visits without tracking people</a></h3>
<p>A privacy-by-design approach.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/google_domains.html">The end of google.{your country}?</a></h3>
<p>Google's move to keep their cookies.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/update_apr_2018.html">April Update - Preparing for Internationalisation</a></h3>
<p>A new data format to ease access to tracker data.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/update_feb_2018.html">February Update - The Tracking Shell Game</a></h3>
<p>How mergers and acquisitions are hiding who actually is tracking us.</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/update_jan_2018.html">WhoTracks.me January Update</a></h3>
<p>New data and trackers in our monthly update.</p>
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<h3><a href="./blog/trackers_in_your_favorite_site.html">Making sense of the trackers on Reddit</a></h3>
<p>Using whotracks.me data and sankey diagrams to dissect trackers</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/update_dec_2017.html">WhoTracks.me December Update</a></h3>
<p>New data and trackers in our monthly update.</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/generating_adblocker_filters.html">Generating Ad-Blocker filters from whotracks.me data</a></h3>
<p>Let's never miss a new tracker again.</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/tracking_and_ux.html">The Impact of Tracking on User Experience</a></h3>
<p>Beyond privacy - a survey of hidden and visible effects of tracking on user experience.</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/how_facebook_knows_exactly_what_turns_you_on.html">How facebook knows exactly what turns you on</a></h3>
<p>A technical analysis of the methods used to track users as a third party. Deep dive into a couple of case studies.</p>
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<p class="primer">primer</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/tracking_pixel.html">Tracking Pixel</a></h3>
<p>So, ... did you read my email?</p>
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<p class="primer">primer</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/fingerprinting.html">Fingerprinting</a></h3>
<p>Let me tell you what's unique about your device.</p>
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<p class="primer">primer</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/cookies.html">Cookies</a></h3>
<p>A small piece of data sent from a website, meant to 'help', used to track.</p>
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<p class="article">article</p>
<h3><a href="./blog/how_cliqz_antitracking_protects_users.html">How Cliqz anti-tracking protects users</a></h3>
<p>Using an algorithmic, data-driven approach to remove unique identifiers that track users.</p>
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