Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
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Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
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Re: Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
#2Looks interesting and is definitely a required tool to show what websites are doing that average users don’t realize.
Sadly the really bad players detect that this is not a normal user and redirect to a error page.
You will have to try harder to fool them into thinking your headless browser is a real user. Probably your test device is in a server center and they detect the IP isn’t a end user IP.
Hope you get it working
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#3That's really well done. I tried several ecommerce, airline, travel, etc, sites. I was surprised with the extent of fingerprinting and 3rd party sites.
For example, American Airlines, aa.com: 17 ad trackers, 32 third party cookies, canvas fingerprinting, session keyboard and mouse tracking, data to facebook, linked in, amazon, and more. Ouch.
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#4Check out https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=wapo.com
Astonishing.
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#5I tried some sites I thought might get a high score. Mostly news sites and webstores since they like to know a lot about you.
Fox News [1] and Breitbart [2] got scarily high scores
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#6I tried some sites I thought might get a high score. Mostly news sites and webstores since they like to know a lot about you. Fox News [1] and Breitbart [2] got scarily high scores [1] https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=foxnews.com [2] https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=breitbart.com
61 third party cookies and 29 trackers for foxnews. Wow.
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#7I entered a website that got 0 for all categories... it was not obvious that the scanner was done or that all zeros was a good thing. Hmmm
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#8I tried some sites I thought might get a high score. Mostly news sites and webstores since they like to know a lot about you. Fox News [1] and Breitbart [2] got scarily high scores [1] https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=foxnews.com [2] https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=breitbart.com
61 third party cookies and 29 trackers for foxnews. Wow.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=nypost.com
40 trackers, 65 third-party cookies
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=aljazeera.com
54 trackers, 148 third-party cookies
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=theonion.com
1 tracker, 0 third-party cookies
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
61 third party cookies and 29 trackers for foxnews. Wow.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=nypost.com 40 trackers, 65 third-party cookies https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=aljazeera.com 54 trackers, 148 third-party cookies https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=theonion.com 1 tracker, 0 third-party cookies
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/nypost.com/vXp79Q5S
24 seconds to load, 585 individual http requests. Crazy. You would think someone there would raise this as an issue.
Re: Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
#10Looks good, but unfortunate name clash - I assume this is unrelated to the established Blacklight discovery platform used (ironically, considering The Markup's domain) in the Panama Papers exposure?
https://projectblacklight.org/
https://source.opennews.org/articles/people-and-tech-behind-...