I wrote a blog about Effective Web Tracking Methods that are still widely used in 2026.

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    LLM answer:

    
    - Tracking Pixels and Web Beacons
    - Email-Open Tracking
    - Email Link-Click Tracking
    - Advertising Impression Tracking
    - Conversion Tracking
    - Social-Media Pixels
    - Analytics Tags and Tag Managers
    
    - IP Address and Network Tracking
    - IP-Based Geolocation
    - ISP, ASN, and Organization Identification
    - Household and Network-Level Matching
    - VPN, Proxy, and Tor Detection
    - Network Reputation and Fraud Scoring
    
    - URL and Referral Tracking
    - UTM Parameter Tracking
    - Advertising Click-ID Tracking
    - Affiliate and Referral-ID Tracking
    - Email Campaign-ID Tracking
    - Link Decoration
    - Redirect-Chain Tracking
    - Cross-Site Identifier Propagation
    - HTTP Referer Header Tracking
    
    - HTTP Header and Cache Tracking
    - User-Agent Tracking
    - Client Hints Tracking
    - Accept-Language Tracking
    - ETag Tracking
    - Cache-Control and Last-Modified Tracking
    
    - Browser Storage Tracking
    - First-Party Cookies
    - Third-Party Cookies
    - LocalStorage and SessionStorage Tracking
    - IndexedDB Tracking
    - Cache Storage Tracking
    - Shared Storage Tracking
    - Service-Worker Storage Tracking
    - Evercookies and Identifier Respawning
    - Supercookies
    - HSTS Supercookies
    - Favicon Cache Tracking
    - TLS Session-Resumption Tracking
    
    - Browser Fingerprinting
    - Browser, Version, and Operating-System Fingerprinting
    - Screen, Viewport, Color-Depth, and Device-Pixel-Ratio Fingerprinting
    - Time-Zone, Language, Locale, and Keyboard-Layout Fingerprinting
    - Installed-Font and Font-Rendering Fingerprinting
    - Canvas Fingerprinting
    - WebGL and WebGPU Fingerprinting
    - AudioContext Fingerprinting
    - GPU and Graphics-Driver Fingerprinting
    - CPU Core, Device-Memory, and Hardware-Concurrency Fingerprinting
    - Touchscreen, Input, and Device-Capability Fingerprinting
    - Camera, Microphone, and Media-Device Fingerprinting
    - Browser Extension, Plugin, MIME-Type, and PDF-Viewer Fingerprinting
    - CSS Feature and Media-Query Fingerprinting
    - Browser API Availability Fingerprinting
    - WebRTC and Local-IP Exposure
    - Network Information API Fingerprinting
    - TLS, JA3, and JA4 Fingerprinting
    - HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Protocol Fingerprinting
    - DNS Resolver Fingerprinting
    - Clock-Skew and Performance-Timing Fingerprinting
    - Sensor Fingerprinting
    - Motion, Orientation, and Ambient-Light Sensor Fingerprinting
    - Speech-Synthesis Voice Fingerprinting
    - Emoji and Text-Rendering Fingerprinting
    - Math, Floating-Point, Error, and Exception Fingerprinting
    - Browser Automation and Bot-Detection Fingerprinting
    - Combined and Probabilistic Fingerprinting
    
    - Account and Login-State Tracking
    - Logged-In Account Tracking
    - Login-State Detection
    - Single Sign-On Tracking
    - OAuth and Social-Login Tracking
    - Embedded Social-Widget Tracking
    - Account-Recovery Identifier Matching
    
    - Cross-Device and Identity-Graph Tracking
    - Login-Based Device Linking
    - Hashed Email and Phone-Number Matching
    - Probabilistic Device Matching
    - Data-Broker Identity Resolution
    - Offline-to-Online Data Matching
    - CRM and Customer-Data Matching
    
    - Server-Side Tracking
    - Server-Side Analytics
    - Server-Side Tag Management
    - Server-to-Server Event Tracking
    - Advertising Conversion APIs
    - Purchase, Order, and Lead-Event Sharing
    
    - Behavioral Analytics and Session Replay
    - Mouse-Movement Tracking
    - Scroll-Depth Tracking
    - Click and Hover Tracking
    - Keystroke and Form-Interaction Tracking
    - Heatmap Tracking
    - Rage-Click Detection
    - Dwell-Time and Engagement Tracking
    - Form-Abandonment Tracking
    
    - Push-Notification Tracking
    - Web Push Subscription Identifiers
    - Mobile Push Tokens
    - Notification Engagement Tracking
    
    - Mobile-App Tracking
    - Mobile Advertising IDs
    - App Instance and SDK Identifiers
    - App-Install Attribution
    - Deep-Link Tracking
    - Mobile Device Fingerprinting
    - Mobile Location Tracking
    
    - Location Tracking
    - GPS Location
    - Wi-Fi Network Location
    - Bluetooth Beacon Location
    - Cell-Tower Location
    - Nearby Device and Network Discovery
    
    - Embedded Third-Party Content Tracking
    - Embedded Video Tracking
    - Embedded Map Tracking
    - Comment-Widget Tracking
    - Payment-Widget Tracking
    - CAPTCHA and Anti-Bot Widget Tracking
    - Third-Party JavaScript Tracking
    
    - DNS and Domain Cloaking
    - CNAME Cloaking
    - First-Party Subdomain Tracking
    - Domain Alias Tracking
    - DNS Query Tracking
    - DNS Prefetch Tracking
    
    - Advertising and Attribution Tracking
    - Real-Time Bidding Tracking
    - Ad-Exchange and Demand-Side Platform Identifiers
    - Retargeting and Remarketing
    - Frequency-Capping Identifiers
    - View-Through Attribution
    - Multi-Touch Attribution