Note: Click here for general information on fingerprinting and the methods used by Sourcepoint to scan for possible fingerprinting.
The Possible fingerprinting compliance metric covers the vendors found (per scan) who use data that could potentially be used for fingerprinting. The metric details view enables your organization to view data visualizations for the compliance metric against your benchmarks and drill down into scanning results.
Navigate to a detailed view for a specific compliance metric by applying your filters to your dashboard and selecting a compliance metric from the Compliance Metrics table.
Note: You can continue to edit filters to adjust properties, regions, periodization, and benchmark properties while viewing the details for a particular metric.
Overview
The graphs below show how your selected properties compared to the selected benchmark properties in regards to how many vendors do possible fingerprinting.
Definitions
- Average count: the average number of vendors per scan that fulfilled the criteria of the metric (e.g. non disclosed, triggered before consent, etc...)
- Relative score: a percentile ranking that compares your selected properties against your benchmark properties for this particular compliance metric.
Detailed Breakdown
The detailed breakdown table lists vendor details that were observed on your properties and who may use data for fingerprinting. Please refer to the table below for definitions for each vendor detail in the table.
| Vendor Detail | Description |
| Vendor Name | Name of observed vendor on your property(ies) who was triggered before an end-user performed a consent action. |
| Vendor Status | Click here for more information. |
| Technology categorisation |
Categorisation is provided by Sourcepoint after rigorous and careful research into the vendor's data practices by reviewing the vendor's privacy policy with regards to the particular cookie or technology. If triggered vendor belongs to more than a single technology category, click the number in the cell to view all categories. |
| Registered for special feature 2 | A check to see if the vendor is registered with the IAB's special feature 2: Actively scan device characteristics for identification |
| Prevalence (My properties) | The prevalence of the vendor across the selected properties. |
| Referrer vendor |
The vendor who owns the last web address accessed by the browser prior to triggering the vendor in question. If triggered vendor is referred to by more than one vendor on your vendor list, click the number in the cell to view all referrer vendors. |
| Vendor details |
Click here for more information. |
Note: Filter the table by different headers by selecting the filter icon from a vendor detail header and apply filters via the dropdown menu. Click OK to apply the filters.
Vendor details
The vendor details modal allows your organization to view specific information about the vendor. View the cookie details modal by clicking View under the Vendor Details column inline with a specific vendor.
From the modal, you organization can view vendor details such as the technology categorization of the vendor, the vendors privacy policy, and the vendor's IAB Global Vendor List identification number (if applicable).
Select any website from under the Websites header to view the URLs where the vendor was observed.
Expand any Page URL to view the host domains associated with the vendor. Host domains are servers that are making network calls to your website that Sourcepoint has mapped to this vendor.
Note: View even more information, including the full URL path used by the vendor by downloading the vendor detail as a csv file.
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