An anonymized version of the dataset and codes used in our paper is available for the research community.
Methodology Dataset: This includes various lists of websites used in the machinery. (a) Websites list with leanings and (b) Disconnect List with categories. For more details check GITHUB page.
Cookies and HTTP Logs Dataset: SQLite dumps of our crawls using OpenWPM. (a) Stateful crawls (b) Stateless crawls
Codes: Codes and additional information of above mentined files are available at GITHUB
You can find the format of the dataset from here.
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If you create a publication using our datasets, please cite our papers as follows.
@inproceedings{agarwal2021under, title={Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites}, author={Agarwal, Vibhor and Vekaria, Yash and Agarwal, Pushkal and Mahapatra, Sangeeta and Set, Shounak and Muthiah, Sakthi Balan and Sastry, Nishanth and Kourtellis, Nicolas}, booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media}, year={2021} }