What are you trying to achieve?:
We would like to have a period of our experiment where participants freely surf their web browser while we capture the URLs visited. Screen captures at regular intervals could achieve something similar.
Privacy will be important to manage for our ethics board. I’d prefer not to ask people to download anything, including cookies or similar, but I’m open to explore different methods.
Any ideas? Has someone tried something similar by chance?
Depending on the web browser, you could ask participants to copy and paste their web browser history and submit. Otherwise, I don’t think there is a way to do this in online studies without installing 3rd party software.
AFAIK psychopy only captures the psychopy window, but maybe that’s changed in some update?
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I don’t think there’s a way to do this ethically without asking participants to download anything. If there’s something on their machine tracking their browsing activity, that needs to be something they’ve actively consented to download/install.
I think the approach @stanley1O1 suggests where participant voluntarily provide their web history for a given period is the safest way to do this.
Thanks folks. I hoped maybe that got implemented for online. I’m going to try implementing a proxy (so they surf through a proxy link). There are a few services that make them easier to build. I’ll let you know how it turns out!