an article on the proliferation, and a new tool included in the latest Privacy Badger from EFF.
Computer scientists reveal history of third-party web tracking
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4610.html
https://trackingexcavator.cs.washington.edu/
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Interesting use of the Internet Archive....
Computer scientists reveal history of third-party web tracki
Computer scientists reveal history of third-party web tracki
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