#TrackingTheTrackers
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #TrackingTheTrackers from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #trackingthetrackers
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-04 01:36 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-04 01:36 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #trackingthetrackers.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-04 01:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 7 public posts (spanning ~23575 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (7)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
#tracking users and usage is an essential element of data analytics, so what exactly is tracking? Here is our first attempt at an overarching definition: https://guardianproject.info/2020/05/20/on-the-classification-of-tracking/ #TrackingTh
#TrackingTheTrackers I'm digging into tools these days, #faup provides lookups if a string is a known domain name, and #ipgrep returns all strings that resolve to an IP address. The #ipgrep approach seems much more useful since it doesn't n
@aral Please find me a technology big tech is involved with that we are not funding actual alternatives to. Any form of proprietary lock-in is something we target to remove, anything that invades privacy needs to be stopped/mitigated (think
#trackingthetrackers across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #trackingthetrackers straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/trackingthetrackers