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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: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Friday October 12 2018, @07:52AM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 12 2018, @07:52AM (#747813) Journal

    It's not an add-on that makes sense to leave running all the time. It's more something you would show to demonstrate particular points related to privacy or security. Then after you are done, disable or uninstall it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:09PM (#748610)

    And once you realize it would be prudent to do something, go ahead and install uMatrix.

    It's somewhat confusing and thus scary to use but it's the best currently available since the excellent RequestPolicy addon doesn't no longer work with the new webextensions system.

    You wouldn't have unprotected sex with a total stranger either. Why should you browse the dangerous and filthy internet naked?