{"id":1519,"date":"2022-10-18T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2022-10-24T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:50:23","slug":"check-tracking-done-by-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/en\/1519\/check-tracking-done-by-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Check tracking done by websites you visit."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want to check some of the tracking that websites do while you browse, make this simple experiment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Open the browser inspector with Ctrl+I or right click and \u00abInspect\u00bb<\/li>
  2. Open the \u00abNetwork\u00bb tab.<\/li>
  3. Now refresh the main page of this blog.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This is what you’ll see: just 8 files that load all what’s needed to browse this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Now open any other website that you use to visit and observe the content that’s loaded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I’m going to visit amazon.es without any further interaction. Just see there’s a file at the end being created every couple of seconds \/1\/batch\/1\/OE<\/code> . Now move the cursor without scrolling the window. The new files will show a variable t<\/strong> for the time you’ve been on the site, and coordinates x<\/strong> and y<\/strong> that show where you place the cursor. This is just an example of how tracking is used very often: where did you access the site from, what you click, what you see, where you stop, you IP, geolocation… There’s nothing of that in here.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    This is only Amazon and its AWS. Google tracking shows up as its famous \u00abanalytics\u00bb or \u00abcollect\u00bb files in the Network tab as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It’s often said that the simplest is the best solution<\/strong>, in fact, you’ll see in this blog that you don’t need so many frills to publish a website. So don’t trust complicated sites, with never-ending \u00abpartners\u00bb lists and with Google Analytics or Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Take care of your browsing!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you want to check some of the tracking that websites do while you browse, make this simple experiment: Open the browser inspector with Ctrl+I or right click and \u00abInspect\u00bb Open the \u00abNetwork\u00bb tab. Now refresh the main page of this blog. This is what you’ll see: just 8 files that load all what’s needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weben","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroamingworkshop.cloud\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}