4 ms·
As a way to demonstrate to a lay user the insidious relationships on the web, it is pretty cool. However, this doesn't seem like a good way to collect good qua
by hrjet 13y ago
As a way to demonstrate to a lay user the insidious relationships on the web, it is pretty cool.
However, this doesn't seem like a good way to collect good quality crowd-sourced data. It can be easily poisoned, and there are simpler alternatives, such as crawling and analyzing the links by themselves. (I am assuming that an entity like Mozilla would have sufficient resources for that).
- davidascher 13y agoCrawling is certainly a complementary data collection strategy, but it's harder to avoid IP-based "filter bubble" effects w/out also deploying something akin to a bot. The hope is that by using real people using real browsers we'll collect data that reflects actual-behavior-in-the-wild. You're right that poisoning is a potential problem if/when the data ends up useful enough to warrant poisoning.