General Journal of Network Requests by Politecnico di Milano

General Journal of Network Requests serves as an evidence of the amount of services and requests uBlock Origin (uBO)—an extension I use on my main internet browser—allows, blocks or redirects during a casual day of web surfing, so that a rough but concrete assessment of the amount of tracking, advertising and malware I filter out 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, sparking the interest of government entities and agencies. Many controversies have been unveiled, various regulations have been introduced, and some bans have been applied. However, the market around personal data is still expanding, and privacy and anonymity are becoming harder to actively maintain. Despite that, there are still ways of contrasting this trend, out of which one is via the use of ad-blockers, like uBO.
This one, specifically, 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, such as Google Sheets and Adobe InDesign, 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.