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The data doesn't seem to contain enough information to cluster unrelated URLs (e.g. by User Agent). Each record contains 1) a timestamp, 2) the requested URL,
by politician 14y ago
The data doesn't seem to contain enough information to cluster unrelated URLs (e.g. by User Agent). Each record contains 1) a timestamp, 2) the requested URL, 3) the referring URL, 4) a boolean classification of the user agent (browser or bot), 5) a boolean flag for whether the request was generated inside or outside IU.
Although you could reconstruct who's looking at Facebook from inside IU, it'd be difficult to further associate them with some other website like Hacker News. On the other hand, the timestamps do leak some information which could potentially be used to identify patterns of activity.
- kordless 14y agoYou've seen that bit where the user-agent is fairly unique to a particular user, right? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent
- politician 14y agoYes, but they aren't sharing the user agent. They're just sharing a boolean derived from the user agent which says whether they think it was a bot or a browser.