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libraryprivacy
@libraryprivacy
Interrogating library privacy

Sep 14, 2022, 7 tweets

Let's go take a look at a title on WorldCat.

worldcat.org/title/10198539… 🧵

Let's live somewhat dangerously: let's view in Chrome, ad blockers off.

Let's see what the Chrome inspector tells us.

Here are network requests to Facebook and Google Analytics...

Sending a request to Facebook's tracker...

Let's display those request parameters in a easier-to-read fashion by switching to the payload tab:

Let's take a look at what Google Analytics got:

Are we _quite_ sure that we want WorldCat sending the IP address of the user and the title of whatever they're looking at on WorldCat to Facebook and Google Analytics?

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