Lightbeam formerly named "Collusion" (Chrome version) is a plugin available for Firefox that reveals a hidden aspect of the web.
Features
- It shows interactive visualizations of your browsing behaviour.
- It shows the relationships between the websites you visit and any involved third-party service.
Download
- Download and install the Lightbeam plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/
- A new icon will be created.
- Launch Lightbeam:
- The circles represent sites you connect to and triangles symbolize sites tracking your navigation (you can zoom in/out using the mouse wheel).
Upon clicking on a circle or triangle, you can:
- block the third party service or website.
- Get more information such as the location of the server and sites that are attached to it
- The filter at the bottom right, allow you to change the time period for which you want to visualize your browsing activities:
- Click on the Reset Data to update the list or graphics.
- Click on Save Data to save your data to a .json file (human readable format).
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