Ansa the information site that most respects the privacy of readers

Cookies are an integral part of identifying and authenticating website visitors on the Internet, but things are changing lately.

In 2019, Safari deleted most of its proprietary cookies after 7 days and completely blocked all third-party cookies by default.

To date, Mozilla blocks all third-party cookies based on the disconnect.me tracker list, and even Google Chrome by the end of 2022 will progressively join Safari and Firefox to block third-party cookies in its browser. web Chrome. 

But what is the situation for the news sites of our country that millions of people visit every day?

On the issue DataMediaHub conducted a desk research

, using an ad hoc tool that allows you to monitor the specific tracking technologies of users on any website, conducting an analysis of the main information sites in our country.

The presence of "ad tracker", advertising tracking technology that by loading Javascript code or small invisible images is used to profile people for advertising purposes, and the presence of third-party cookies, which are also commonly used by companies, were analyzed. of advertising tracking for the same purpose.

The presence of the Facebook pixel was also evaluated, a code snippet that sends data about people visiting a particular site back to Facebook.

Well, at the top of the list is the site of the Libero newspaper with 32 ad trackers present with scripts belonging, among others, to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Adobe Inc., The Nielsen Company, Alphabet, Inc. (or Google) .

The website of Il Foglio, on the other hand, is the one that contains the largest number of third-party cookies, 67. Among these we also find those of Outbrain, Oracle Corporation, Alphabet Inc., and many others.

Of the 24 sites analyzed, 8 contain Facebook pixels, and two also load trackers on the PC of those who visit their site in order to identify users even if they block third-party cookies.

ANSA is the most virtuous news magazine

, as shown by the infographic, with no ad tracker,

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According to data from the prestigious report of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, ANSA is a source of information in which Italians have greater confidence.

Readers now have all the more reason to place that trust.