New Firefox App Tracks Who’s Tracking You

Tech Spot
October 25, 2013

2013-10-25-image-3We all know that many sites will use any method they can to track us, whether it’s for legitimate reasons that make our experience a better one or for evil reasons like advertising data or just keeping an eye on us.

That tracking data can become woven in a large web of connected sites and now Mozilla has released a new add-on for its Firefox browser that will visualize this process as it happens, logging sites that are tracking you and how those entities are connected to other services/tools.

The new add-on is called Lightbeam, it functions as a Firefox plugin and will put a name to the faces that are tracking your browsing history. The add-on, which is based on the experimental Collusion extension, will not only track first party sites but it also allows you to see third party tools and other forms of tracking technology connected to those sites.

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