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posted by martyb on Thursday October 11 2018, @10:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the see-what-you're-missing dept.

Derek Zimmer has a blog post over at Private Internet Access about the Firefox extension Lightbeam and how it shows graphically in realtime the benefits of privacy. Lightbeam is a continuation of the visualization project, Collusion, which was introduced in 2012. The extension shows which sites your browser is interacting with including third party connections and shows the relation between them. It has several visualization modes and the ability to save the connection history to a file. He notes that it is very useful in seeing the relation of a page to the plethora of trackers, web libraries, cookies, and all kinds of outside parties trying to gather and sell your data which it pulls in.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:11PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:11PM (#747706)

    Use PaleMoon and you'll realize why Firefox jumped the shark when the pink-haired CoC dingbats took over and used all the R+D funding for gender-neutral bathrooms.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:12AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:12AM (#747719)

    Please tell me how exactly is using a derivative browser going to prove anything about Mozilla's internal policy? Please provide proof that there are more pink haired people working for them than any other demographic or that they even built gender-neutral bathrooms.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:41AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:41AM (#747729)

      Simple: if everyone uses another product, Mozilla's revenue from spying on its users will go to zero and they won't be able to afford to keep their safe spaces open. This will result in the pink hairs fleeing the building in a special snowflake panic. When they're gone you can go inside and count the number of gender-neutral bathrooms yourself since you're so interested.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:51AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:51AM (#747732)

        And everything proves nothing, except the imbecility of the poster.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @03:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @03:24AM (#747771)

      Oh, thank goodness they were just building gender-neutral ones. Here I thought they'd need to build 101237 bathrooms!

      (Holy shit! If this keeps up, that exponent is going to be over 9000 soon!)