Sorry guys, didn’t intentionally target you to be my examples.
News.com.au (and many other sites) don’t just track you, they go out of their way to bypass privacy protections your browser may have. Justlooking below, the site immediately contacts Adobe, but also leaks cookies that contain unique identifiers used to track you across the entire internet belonging to companies like Google ( _ga trackers = Google Analytics), Facebook, the list goes on.
From free service Tracking The Trackers:
Blacklight by themarkup.org – LINK
You visit a website to read news, whatever. You’re read it, but it’s also reading you…
news.com.au I read on and off for amusement (not news.) That’s what they want, because they’re trying to turn your visits, their web traffic, into money. Doesn’t have to be real news to get people there. But what does it do?
Blacklight is a web tool that scans a site for trackers and gives you a very basic overview. No detail, and it won’t pick up advanced tracking techniques or security breaches but for news.com.au it found:
What can you do about this? Answers coming soon 🙂
