Rahoul Baruah

Rahoul Baruah

Rubyist since 1.8.6. I like hair, dogs and Kim/Charli/Poppy. Also CTO at Collabor8Online.

Cookies and more

So a web page is built out of many different files - the HTML, the stylesheets, the Javascripts, the images and possibly many more. Often, all these files live on the same server.

How web browsers work

This is a very simplified view of how a web browser works, but it should be enough to explain how web tracking works. When you click a link - for example https://somesite.

How tracking works

People are becoming more and more aware that their activities online are being tracked. But how does it work? The other day my wife mentioned that she had been looking up some information

The power of the timeline

I mentioned a few days back that I was noticing a load of junk on my timelines for Facebook and Instagram. This is because I'm not using them as often, due

More on the Facebook Privacy Saga

As you may be aware, I've been running a small Facebook experiment. My latest update spoke of how nothing has really changed. But there is one change. And it's
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