Dataset Format

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1. Methodology Dataset: This includes various lists of websites used in the machinery.
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a) Labelled dataset of top Indian News Websites (Indian_News_Websites.csv): Columns are-
- Website_Name: Name of Indian news website
- Political_Leaning: Labelled political leaning (LEFT_TO_LEFTCENTRE, RIGHT_TO_RIGHTCENTRE, or CENTRIST_AND_LEASTBIASED). They are referred to as Left, Right, and Centre respectively in this study. 
- Website_URL: URL of the News website
- Language: Language of News website, eg. English, Hindi, etc.
- MobileSite: Is there a separate mobile website? If yes, it has mobile website URL.
- PrintMedia: Is the news website also available as Print media?
- TVMedia: Is the news website also available as TV media?
- OnlineMedia: Is the news website only available as Online media?
- FacebookReach: Facebook reach of the website
- TwitterReach: Twitter reach of the website
- InstagramReach: Instagram reach of the website
- AlexaGlobalRank: Global Alexa rank of the website
- AlexaIndiaRank: Indian Alexa rank of the website
- Parent_Company: Parent Company of the website
- Website_Registrar: Website Registrar
- Registered_On: When was the website first registered?
- Expires_On: When will the website registration expire?
- TrafficContributingSubDomains: Popular sub-domains of the website contributing to the majority of the traffic.

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b) Disconnect List (DisconnectList_Cookie_Categorisation.csv):
We use a list from https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/blob/master/services.json (Jan 2021) to understand the type of cookies set for users. We breakdown the cookies into six types: Advertising, Analytics, Content & Social, Fingerprinting, Other, and Unknown. Other includes 'Cryptomining' and 'Disconnect' categories. Columns are-
- TP Domain: Third-party domain, eg. doubleclick.net
- Raw Category: Cookie Category extracted from Disconnect List
- Organisation: Organisation that owns this TP domain
- Cookie Category: Cookie Category used in our study (6 categories)
- # Left FP: No. of Left news websites having this TP domain
- # Right FP: No. of Right news websites having this TP domain
- # Centre FP: No. of Centre news websites having this TP domain
- # Total FP: Total no. of news websites having this TP domain

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2. Cookies and HTTP Logs Dataset: SQLite data dumps crawled using OpenWPM.
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a) Stateful_crawls.zip : Five stateful crawls of Indian news websites using OpenWPM.
- For more details about tables in SQLite database, please refer to https://github.com/mozilla/OpenWPM/blob/master/README.md (Jan 2021).

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b) Stateless_crawls.zip : Five stateless crawls of Indian news websites using OpenWPM.
- For more details about tables in SQLite database, please refer to https://github.com/mozilla/OpenWPM/blob/master/README.md (Jan 2021).

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