Mozilla has released a tool to show which companies are monitoring your online browsing activity in its mission to make the Web more transparent. Lightbeam, available as a free Firefox browser extension, shows which third-party companies are tracking your browsing activity, and how they are connected. Those third parties often represent brands and advertisers that want to share your data or display targeted ads. The aim of the tool is to highlight the first- and third-party sites you interact with, including hidden parts of the Web.
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Firefox's Lightbeam Brings Web Trackers Out of the Dark
Posted by: Kris Holt October 25, 2013 02:28 PMMozilla has released a tool to show which companies are monitoring your online browsing activity in its mission to make the Web more transparent. Lightbeam, available as a free Firefox browser extension, shows which third-party companies are tracking your browsing activity, and how they are connected. Those third parties often represent brands and advertisers that want to share your data or display targeted ads. The aim of the tool is to highlight the first- and third-party sites you interact with, including hidden parts of the Web.