If you see pornographic material in "Incognito" mode, no one will know it, you're wrong. Google, Facebook, and even Oracle Clouds secretly track the clock that when you are watching "Incognito" mode on your Laptop or Smartphone.
In a new joint study of Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania, using 22,484 sexual websites using an instrument called "webXray", it has been found that 93% of pages leak to users' data track and leak user data to third party organizations.
"Tracking on these sites is more focused on a number of big companies," researchers tracked 230 different organizations and services by tracking their sample users.
Among non-pornography-specific services, Google tracks 74% of sites, Oracle's 24%, and Facebook's 10%.
In the top ten, porn-specific trackers are exoClick (40%), JuicyAds (11%), and EroAdvertising (9%).
According to the study, "In the top 10, non-pornography companies are mostly based in the United States, although pornographic-specific companies are mostly in Europe."
Researcher - Elena Maris, Microsoft Research; Timothy Libert, Carnegie Mellon University; And Jennifer Henrichsen of the University of Pennsylvania - said that they successfully launched privacy policies for 3,856 sites - a total of 17%.
"These policies were written in such a way that they could require a two-year college education to understand them. It has been stated in the analysis of the content that 44.97% of them have expressed or expressed the desire to connect with specific gender / sexual orientation or user, "the study, published in the New Media and Society magazine, said.
To reach this conclusion, the group created a fantastic profile called "Jack", who agreed to see porn on his Laptop.
Jack enables the "Incognito" mode in his browser, his actions are now personalized. He pulls up a site and scrolls past a small link to a privacy policy. A site with a privacy policy will be presumed to protect its personal information, jack clicks in a video.
"Jack does not know that the incognito mode only ensures that its browsing history is stored on its computer. He can see sites that track third-party tracker sites as well as record online activities, "researchers said.
These third parties can also tell Jack's sexual interests, even from the URLs they access, and also use what they have decided on these interests for marketing or building a consumer profile. They could even sell information
Researchers wrote, "Post websites will protect their information with the assurance of the incognito mode icon on their screen, and will provide secret privacy to Jack because he uses obscene online."
The above hypothetical scenario is more frequent in reality and it indicates the data leakage and tracking of the information in pornographic data.
In 2017, Pornhub, one of the largest pornographic websites, received 28.5 billion visits, users performed 50,000 searches per second on the site.
The statistics change with the amount of overall porn activity on the Internet, but a report from 2017 shows that pornographic sites get more visitors every month than meeting Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter, and "30%
Researchers say, "If the results of this research are far from enthusiastic, we believe that regulatory interference can be a positive result."
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