whotracks.me
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17 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
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whotracks.me
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DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide
* There are paid alternatives now, if you want to opt out of what allows them to offer search for "free" then go use those.*
Paying for search won't change the fact that 75% of all web traffic contains Google trackers.
https://whotracks.me/
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Open-source tests of web browser privacy
Thank you for the feedback!
Granted, blocklists (lists of tracking domains or URL query parameters) can be circumvented by a determined attacker. Indeed, I agree that blocklists aren't sufficient on their own for a browser to provide solid privacy protection. In my view it's critical, primarily, to have policies that enforce privacy, including such protections as state partitioning and fingerprinting resistance. That's exactly why I included tests for such policies.
However: I do think blocklists provide substantial, though incomplete, privacy protection in practice. And, importantly, blocklists are enforced by a number of popular browsers (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Firefox Private Mode, Firefox Focus) and popular browser extensions and other services (uBlock, ClearURLs, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Disconnect, etc.). These blocklists seem to work pretty well, at least judging by the ad-free experience they provide. So I felt that to give a more complete picture I should test for blocking.
I tried to avoid cherry picking query parameters or blockers. Here's how I arrived at the current selections for these two sections:
* Tracking query parameter tests: I tried to gather all the query parameters I could find; the list on the page was my full list at the time. (If there are suggestions for more parameters, I will be happy to add them.)
* Tracker content blocking tests: I used the list of the top 20 tracking entities from https://whotracks.me. These are, roughly speaking, 20 of the most widespread third-party tracking domains on the web -- they should be a high priority for any browser respecting privacy, in my opinion. I hope testing for blocking of these 20 serves to gives a sense of each browser's approach to third-party tracking scripts and pixels.
- "WhoTracks.Me" Find out exactly who's tracking you online
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How to track trackers? [Python for now]
https://whotracks.me/ and https://www.ghostery.com/ and I wondered how they manage to find all these trackers, I usually only were able to find these hardcoded ones like google analytics on this site for example: https://cellinoplumbing.com/
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A Quick Reminder For Those Who Wants To
Ghostery neither collects nor sells data about users or trackers. In fact, they even open the insights they have about the tracking landscape via https://whotracks.me/ so that everyone can benefit from it.
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80% less distractions with 20% more privacy
Privacy Badge: Blocks cookies with domains cookies collecting unique identifiers after it was sent a Do Not Track message. Focus only on google, facebook and amazon and check whotracks.me.
alternative-frontends
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.rss Feeds for Social Media
use alternative privacy-focused frontends: https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
I use nitter and proxigram to query RSS feeds.
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Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
I use something similar to this, the only differences are because my use case is privacy protection and avoiding algorithmic feeds. I use the Redirector extension for Firefox so that it redirects e.g. Youtube, Twitter, and StackOverflow links to the corresponding alternative frontends Piped, Nitter, and AnonymousOverflow. You can find maintained lists [1] [2] of such projects and their instances. Mostly they are FOSS and privacy-respecting, and they have distraction-free frontends because it's a helpful coincidence of being ethical software.
[1] https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
- Why Do You Still Use Firefox?
- Too many sites are blocking Mullvad IPs these days.
- List of privacy respecting frontends (Reddit, Twitter etc)
- Privacy-respecting web frontends for popular services
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refuse to be a commodity. use libre services.
for a full list, refer this: https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends.
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Librewolf passes all the deep privacy tests. Is it the best Firefox fork?
There are front end alternatives for major sites if you really need that btw. I use from time time to time Invidious when I want t o see a YT video for example. As for sites that require tracking cookies to work I simply stopped using them. If a given site requires the use of intrusive "necessary" cookies I just stop using it. I'm convinced is about priorities. If you quit a browser that is safe because is slow, well, you need to re-estate your priorities imho (not you, op, anyone ;) ).
- Attention Degooglers, Let's Update the SideBar
What are some alternatives?
ghostery-extension - Ghostery Browser Extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari
alternative-front-ends - Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
hblock - Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.
privacy-redirect - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
1Hosts - World's most advanced DNS filter-/blocklists!
bibliogram
multi-object-tracking-in-python - 📡 implementation of multi object tracking algorithms including PMBM (Poisson Multi Bernoulli Mixture filter) in Python 🐍
privacy-respecting - Curated List of Privacy Respecting Services and Software
settings
blocktube - YouTube™ content blocker
opendp - The core library of differential privacy algorithms powering the OpenDP Project.
coreutils - upstream mirror