Farhad Manjoo

I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/23/opinion/data-internet-privacy-tracking.html

For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained. Then I uploaded the data to my colleagues at The Times, who reconstructed my web sessions into the gloriously invasive picture of my digital life you see here.

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