search

mozilla / overscripted

Repository for the Mozilla Overscripted Data Mining Challenge
Mozilla Public License 2.0
75 stars 53 forks source link

Explained the differences between ad blocker and tracker blocker datasets requirement. [WIP] #87

Closed agarwalishita closed 5 years ago

agarwalishita commented 5 years ago

Hello @birdsarah, I hope I am going in right direction now. :) So, here I have tried to do some analysis and all participants must go through it in order to understand how ad blocker is different from tracker blocker. I hope it will clear their doubts. And please review it so that I can make required amendments.

agarwalishita commented 5 years ago

@birdsarah Thank you for your reviews. I have tried to make all requested changes to the best of my knowledge. Still if you feel that something is unexplained or imprecisely written, feel free to request changes again.

mlopatka commented 5 years ago

@agarwalishita I agree with @birdsarah 's comments here. You are on the right track with the write-up but there are critical pieces that are either unclear or incorrect in the current articulation.

To reiterate some of birdsarah's points: 1- What are the different ways tracking occurs? 2- How common are they? 3- How would you detect them? 4- How does the OverScripted dataset fit into that picture in terms of the visibility of those tracking approaches in the space of what has been collected in the OverScripted dataset?

There are two aspects of this write-up where some further work would be very beneficial. (1) The relationship between tracking and advertisement is much more complex than the current write-up suggests. In recent revisions you have made progress in differentiating the two ideas, this is good; however, there is a relationship here that makes this particular project both interesting and difficult. Perhaps a better summary of the relationship (at a very high level) between advertisement and tracking. Focus on both the differences and the relationships. (2) It is my hope and my suspicion, that once you have addressed (1) in more breadth, the technical relationship between tracking and advertising will be much more clear. Likewise, you should be able to make more direct reference between your description of technology used for tracking and the data contained in the Overscripted set.