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Who is looking over your shoulder?

malinda.terreri

Grease Monkey
Jun 4, 2011
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Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web:

"Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency.

Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers to discover what your interests are.

Users who activate Lightbeam will be able to see a real-time visualization of every site they visit and every third-party that is active on those sites, including commercial organisations which might potentially be sharing your data."


Originally launched as a Firefox addition in 2/2012, it will be interesting to see if this version catches on.

Source: Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent