A web scrapper for understanding cookies. This is the codebase for our paper "Understanding the Effect of GDPR-like Policies for Cookies in Web Applications Paper Code".
Authors: Mike Zeng, Frank Forliano
Majority of websites use cookies, as a direct consequence of needing data. In the past, they have caused many violations to privacy laws like GDPR or CCPA. The EU has made many lawsuits to companies for breaking GDPR laws, and by using a web scraper, we found out that these policies and enforcements have been working sufficiently well at reducing cookie usage in web applications, and causing the overall amount of cookies that load initially to decrease as compared to places that do not have such GDPR-like policies.
The full length paper can be found in the repository.