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When I installed the Lightbeam add-on and browsed around eight websites, I found out that 89 third-party applications were also accessing my personal data. | |||
Those third-party sites are things like social-networking buttons, embedded scripts for online ads, cookies tracking user activity to create personalized features, widgets, and so on. They aren't necessarily a bad thing, but they know a lot about me and thats scary. | |||
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Revision as of 22:48, 12 April 2014
Third party tracker dictionary
When I installed the Lightbeam add-on and browsed around eight websites, I found out that 89 third-party applications were also accessing my personal data.
Those third-party sites are things like social-networking buttons, embedded scripts for online ads, cookies tracking user activity to create personalized features, widgets, and so on. They aren't necessarily a bad thing, but they know a lot about me and thats scary.
