Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project

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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

2016592 points268 commentscited by 6Web & Frontend details

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-based) and stateless (fingerprinting-based) tracking, the effect of browser privacy tools, and "cookie syncing". This measurement is made possible by our web…

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)

2021389 points194 commentscited by 6Security & Privacy details

Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…