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Everything about Web tracking
Collection of information regarding user usage by websites
Web tracking is the practice by which operators of websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors' activities on the World Wide Web. Analysis of a user's behaviour may be used to provide content that enables the operator to infer their preferences and may be of interest to various parties, such as advertisers. Web tracking can be part of visitor management. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Web trackingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: You are how (and where) you search? Comparative analysis of web search behavior using web tracking dataInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Creating location services for the wireless WebThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Generation Y, web design, and eye trackingCited 284 times
- Go sideways: Local shared objectA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Internet privacyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Generation Y, web design, and eye tracking
Cloud-Based Patient Health Record Tracking Web Development
Eye Tracking and Web Experience
Tracking Web spam with HTML style similarities
Tracking Web Video Topics: Discovery, Visualization, and Monitoring
Eye-tracking Evaluation of Weather Web Maps
On the Ubiquity of Web Tracking: Insights from a Billion-Page Web Crawl
Towards a global perspective on web tracking
🆕 Influential since 2022
You are how (and where) you search? Comparative analysis of web search behavior using web tracking data
Tracking ChatGPT Research: Insights From the Literature and the Web
Prevalence of Third-Party Tracking on Abortion Clinic Web Pages
Combating Web Tracking: Analyzing Web Tracking Technologies for User Privacy
Uncovering Digital Trace Data Biases: Tracking Undercoverage in Web Tracking Data
📚 Books worth reading
Creating location services for the wireless WebJohan Hjelm · 2002
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