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Verification / evolution of "Internet Jones" paper

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#26 opened on Dec 18, 2018

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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.

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Review the paper's methodology and data requirements. Compare with the Overscripted dataset to identify which metrics can be reproduced. Write a Jupyter notebook or script to compute those metrics and analyze the evolution of tracking over time.
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