{"id":39,"date":"2018-09-26T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/?p=39"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:49:14","slug":"tracking-the-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/09\/26\/tracking-the-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t ever heard of trackers so this exercise was informative. I liked the visual graph that Lightbeam provides. I thought that only the website I visited kept data, not that third party websites also collected data! Overall, I visited 14 websites on my work computer since September 19, but in reality was tracked by 143 other websites! The website with the most trackers was PrintAction.com, a graphic arts industry website. After reading about trackers, this made sense given that the PrintAction website has a lot of advertising, which would be tracking what I do. I use Google Chrome and it is set to keep cookies from third parties for one week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/files\/2018\/09\/pastedImage-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/files\/2018\/09\/pastedImage-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/files\/2018\/09\/pastedImage-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/files\/2018\/09\/pastedImage-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/files\/2018\/09\/pastedImage.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t ever heard of trackers so this exercise was informative. I liked the visual graph that Lightbeam provides. I thought that only the website I visited kept data, not that third party websites also collected data! Overall, I visited 14 websites on my work computer since September 19, but in reality was tracked by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/09\/26\/tracking-the-trackers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tracking the Trackers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-literacy","category-tracking","category-twu-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}