https://watchkeeper.net/tags/explainers/ Recent content in Explainers on watchkeeper.net Hugo en-us Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://watchkeeper.net/how-web-tracking-works-and-why-you-never-see-it/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://watchkeeper.net/how-web-tracking-works-and-why-you-never-see-it/ <p>A web page isn&rsquo;t one thing from one place. The article comes from the news site, but the fonts may come from a font service, the ads from an ad network, the share button from a social network and the visitor counter from an analytics company. Your browser fetches each piece from wherever it lives, and every one of those places learns that someone at your internet address just opened that article.</p>