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Facebook and Google track what porn you're watching, even when you're in incognito

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  • Porn sites are riddled with web trackers, including from Google, Facebook, and Oracle, according to researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Pennsylvania.
  • More than 22,484 porn sites were analyzed, of which 74% were found to contain Google trackers. Oracle had trackers on 24% and Facebook on 10%.
  • Google and Facebook said data from these trackers was not used to build marketing profiles of users.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Facebook, Google, and Oracle are tracking the porn you watch, according to a new study first spotted by The New York Times.

Researchers from Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed 22,484 pornography sites using a tool called webXray to identify tracking tools feeding data back to third parties.

"Our results indicate tracking is endemic on pornography websites: 93% of pages leak user data to a third-party," the study concludes.


read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-quietly-tracking-porn-you-watch-2019-7
 
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