Mastodawn

Apr 23, 2024

What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

Tracker Beeper - Bert Hubert's writings

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

Bert Hubert's writings

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

Apr 23, 2024

To all the commenters explaining how to make this go away: That's not the point. At all. The majority out there has to deal with this stuff and they don't even know. That's what this experiment is about.

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

Apr 23, 2024

IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) the real question is: Why do browsers share all of this? (And it's not just Chrome. These are Web Standards, so all browsers share this) Why isn't there a simple option to say "Read-Only, send no data back except for which page I want to see"? The web is not we want it to be, IMHO.

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LautreG

@jwildeboer @Gon0s
That is why you need use Ublock Origin, and don't allow JavaScript.

Many good websites works fine without JavaScript.
Many spy websites need JavaScript.

With Ublock Origin you can mitigate some part if JavaScript is still needed.

It's also safer to surf on Internet without advertising or trackers. Virus can be propagate by them, or promoted by them.

#UblockOrigin