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Look Who's Tracking
Author(s) -
John Bailey,
Linus Nyman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
informaatiotutkimus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1797-9129
DOI - 10.23978/inf.87841
Subject(s) - bittorrent tracker , tracking (education) , profiling (computer programming) , analytics , advertising , web analytics , activity tracker , world wide web , computer science , internet privacy , the internet , data science , eye tracking , business , psychology , artificial intelligence , web development , pedagogy , web application security , wearable computer , embedded system , operating system
Though research into online tracking prevalence as a topic is not new, we still know little about who is tracking and profiling Finnish web users. This study examines tracking on the 500 websites most frequently visited by Finnish users. We also compare trackers on Finnish websites versus non-Finnish websites. We found trackers on 410 of the 500 websites, and a total of 466 unique trackers from 408 different organizations. Similar to most previous studies, Google had the greatest tracker coverage, mostly through Google Analytics and Doubleclick, reaching 75 % of the websites analyzed. The second-most prevalent tracking organization was Facebook, present on 46 % of the websites. After Google and Facebook came a number of organizations with fairly similar tracking coverage, followed by a long tail of others. There were notable differences when comparing Finnish websites to non-Finnish sites, displaying some level of geographical preference in publishers’ choices of advertising platforms and analytical tools.

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