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That's one of the things I'm considering right now. To re-write the top 1000 or so with annotations and then to sort them by category as well as an example of a site that is 'clean' in the same category.

There are a ton of offenders and some of them are very well known.

One of the interesting things you find when you look at this data is that the bigger sites really do have their stuff set up better (for instance, by using in-house analytics) but there are lots and lots of exceptions and some of them are quite shocking. For instance, I've found two major car brands that include evercookies on their corporate websites in Eastern Europe, a thing that no respectable company should ever do. I suspect an ad agency is the cause of this so I'm still digging away at that.



If you want a never ending list of shocking offenders, be sure to check out most airline sites. They really are abysmal.


frankly, i am much less bothered by the cross-domain visit tracking aspects than the js injection. cookies are not going anywhere in a thriving, behavioral analysis driven ad industry. i dont know how logged impressions/clicks can be trusted for accuracy if they had to be proxied by or entrusted to their customer's servers.

i will live with cookies, but absolutely will not live with injected js behind https.




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