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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.  
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.  
[[File:Newtab-tracking-chrome.jpg|thumbnail]]
[[File:Newtab-tracking-chrome.jpg|thumbnail]]
This project is about the data that the trackers are pilling up for every person. My aim was to create something like a phonebook for all the people who now you on the web.
This project is about the data that the trackers are pilling up for every person. The goal was to create something like a phonebook for all the trackers who know you on the web.  
[[File:Stalker-search-engine.jpg|thumbnail]]
[[File:Stalker-search-engine.jpg|thumbnail]]

Revision as of 15:14, 13 April 2014

SEARCH ENGINE FOR THIRD PARTY TRACKERS

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.

Newtab-tracking-chrome.jpg

This project is about the data that the trackers are pilling up for every person. The goal was to create something like a phonebook for all the trackers who know you on the web.

Stalker-search-engine.jpg