General Journal of Network Requests highlights of the amount of services and requests uBlock Origin (uBO) allows, blocks or redirects during a day of web surfing, so that an assessment of the amount of tracking, advertising and malware I filter out on my browser can be done.
Since the mass adoption of the internet, people, governments, and businesses became progressively more interconnected. New ways of doing business started to emerge, and privacy is becoming increasingly difficult to preserve. One way to contrast this trend is through ad-blockers, like uBO.
This one lets the user view a log of all the requests that websites send to the browser when there's the need to download or upload data. So, I decided to record one for 12 hours, and to store it inside a general journal of around 860 pages. The raw data has been processed through the weaponisation of closed-source services and software, and the format constitutes the physical enunciation of what it's usually done with those same data. The only difference is that those requests, either redirected or blocked by uBO, have not made it through.
