Privacy@Lemmy.world: How well do sites like Blacklight work for checking if sites use trackers?
Privacy@Lemmy.world: How well do sites like Blacklight work for checking if sites use trackers?
https://themarkup.org/blacklight, I put in a few sites, including a full Reddit post URL and it reported 0 trackers. Does this site work well, are there other sites for seeing trackers on websites that work well?
I posted a link to B&H photo and it found a couple
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Blacklight Inspection Result Blacklight works by visiting each website with a headless browser running custom software built by The Markup. To learn more, read our methodology. 3 Ad trackers found on this site. This is less than half the average of seven that we found on popular sites 2 Third-party cookies found. This is less than the average of three that we found on popular sites Tracking that evades cookie blockers wasn't found. Session recording services not found on this website. We did not find this website capturing keystrokes. Facebook Pixel not found on this website. This site allows Google Analytics to follow you across the internet. Some of the ad-tech companies this website interacted with: The inspected website contacted some well known actors in the ad-tech industry. Not all of these loaded trackers, so they may be different from those listed in the tests section above. For more information on each company, what it does, and which of its domains Blacklight found during the inspection, click the arrow. Reading this can give you a better idea of how the ad-tech industry works. Alphabet See Something Worrying? Tell us about it
Blacklight results should not be taken as the final word on potential privacy violations by a given website. Rather, they should be treated as an initial automated inspection that requires further investigation