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We present to you an exceptional project created by the site The Markup, the same as the article on Google is first in Google searches! We really like the project we are talking about today and will immediately include it in ours practical examples. We'll let you guess what it's about by telling you that the project is originally called Blacklight. In Italian it is called blacklight Wood's lamp. It is that ultraviolet lamp that is often seen in films and TV series and which is used to see traces of materials otherwise invisible to the naked eye. 1
What this site does is simply spectacular and its use is extremely simple. This tool will analyze any site you enter and pass it… to ultraviolet rays! It will tell you in detail what that site contains and how much it will try to follow and track you if you do not use adequate protections (such as a valid alternative to Chrome, for example).
Blacklight
First of all it will tell you if and how many tracers advertisers found. Later it will tell you how many Cookies of third parties (read our article to find out more about Cookies) will try to install. The so-called will also be searched Fingerprinting, i.e. tracking methods other than Cookies That they will try to identify yours Browsers.
It will then tell you whether the website is tracking your mouse movements in any way and also whether it is tracking how you use the keyboard. Finally you will be able to find out very easily whether Facebook And Google are present on that site and consequently if they know that you are visiting it.
If advertising companies are found you will be shown a list of who is trying to track you.
How much are we being tracked online?
We believe Blacklight a very interesting site indeed as the elimination of online tracking is one of ours leitmotif. It is absurd to continue to pretend nothing has happened and to continue to believe that it is normal that a private company can follow everything we do online. We have said it many times and we say it again: we would never accept such treatment in real life, it doesn't exist no reason to accept it on the internet.
Some dramatic examples we found thanks to Blacklight: Daily fact with 24 Ad trackers e 64 (!) Cookies third parties e The post with 18 To Trackers, 20 Cookies third parties and also Fingerprinting.
TheAlternatives instead, as you can also observe, it doesn't keep track of you 💚
We leave you with some useful tips to block wild tracking and the so-called garbage of the web:
- Alternatives to Google Chrome, use a Browsers Safe!
- Exodus, as Blacklight but for all apps of Android.
- What are the Cookies? A little guide to better understand the Cookies.
- TrackerControl, to avoid i tracers on Android.
- Track This, a Mozilla experiment to better understand i tracers.
- GApps Browsers, to use Google without being tracked on Android.
- Understand privacy policies, some sites that summarize the privacy policies.
- Facebook follows you everywhere, to understand how invasive Facebook is.
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