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frontend website for https://youtube.tracking.exposed, the video platform algorithm analysis toolkit
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new feature "pseudonym" #20

Closed SalvatoreRomano1 closed 4 years ago

SalvatoreRomano1 commented 4 years ago

It would be nice to add in the csv file that each user can also download the feature "pseudonym" to be able to marge different csv of different users to produce a comparison. (In the csv that you can download from the "compare" function the pseudonym is already present with the name "watcher" )

vecna commented 4 years ago

this should be fixed online, please test it

SalvatoreRomano1 commented 4 years ago

It works for the general csv with all the videos of an users, but not in the "compare function"

vecna commented 4 years ago

I see, the CSV depending from an individual videoId has not the watcher. that's true, and I'm still undecided in doing it or if put an additional anonymization layer and make dedicate pseudonyms for each video

SalvatoreRomano1 commented 4 years ago

I think that it would be better to use the same pseudonym also for the videoId, so we can conduct collective analysis easily.

vecna commented 4 years ago

I'm concerned on the privacy implication of this; probably, the safest solution, would be the tagging