van der Velden, Lonneke2018-09-262018-09-262014https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/third-party-diary-tracking-trackers-dutch-governmental-websites-2/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3324This article discusses how the browser plugin Ghostery contributes to a particular understanding of contemporary consumer surveillance by making Web tracking transparent. The Tracker Tracker is a digital methods tool that, by following Ghostery, detects trackers on specific sets of URLs. It was used to examine all the websites of the Government of the Netherlands on a regular basis. Ghostery also invokes a particular informational genre which has an effect on how we understand the issue of Web tracking. The use of such a tool therefore raises a question: what happens when we repurpose an ‘issue device’ as ‘research device’?engVerbraucherÜberwachungCookie <Internet>Spurweb trackingconsumer surveillancedigital methodstraces38410.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VELD10.25969/mediarep/151412213-0217