Carbolytics

Carbolytics is a colaborative proyect between Joana Moll and the BSC's Data Analytics & Visualization team. The aim of this collaboration is to cuantify the energy consumption generated by cookies while we browse on the Internet. The project is commisioned by AKSIOMA, Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, within konS platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.

How to reproduce our results

We recommend running our project on a docker container making use of docker-compose once it has been cloned.

docker-compose up -d

This will generate three containers

• gluetun. Gluetun VPN Client for region selection using almost-any VPN provider on the market. You will need to generate a folder secrets with 2 files for your VPN credentials. vpn_user.txt and vpn_pass.txt.
• carbolytics_db. PostgreSQL 13.4 for long-term storage of the cookies crawled.
• crawl. OpenWPM container with modiffied options for this project.