FrancescoSTL / Site-Sonar

A browser extension which silently crowd-sources ad performance as you browse. Let's put an end to bad ads.
http://site-sonar.com
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Log Results to DB #4

Closed FrancescoSTL closed 8 years ago

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

Now that we've got a functioning web extension, we need to log our results somewhere other than the console. Ideally, we will hook this up to a database so every user can send their results to one place.

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

In order to remain privacy respecting with data collection, we may want to simply aggregate time per request by ad network and host url rather than attempting to grab and store individual asset URLs which could have uniquely identifiable information.

In short, client-side we will grab (for each request): host URL, ad-provider entity name, network response time

On the server we can compile:

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

Everything is connected and the correct data is being transmitted to our API. Now the dashboard just needs to interpret it and log it to the database. I'll close this, however, because that work needs to be done in the Dashboard repo.