Developer Bert Hubert He’s not the most famous person in the tech world, but he is championship The covers One of the important digital media of communication in the past few hours, as in Information posted on 9to5Google. the reason? launch a tool For operating systems that rely on linux and his name Googleerteller. This app is simple in its concept, but really interesting in the background: the ability to I know The times In what Google is tracking us. Get ready, because there are more times than you can imagine.
The Linux tool is able to warn the user every time Google tracks it. unplash
An app that seeks to clarify the times Google collects user data
The Run the program Its a simple question. Googleerteller Use List IP addresseswhich is provided free of charge by Google, and every time it is connect the computer To one of them, it emits from Alarm soundas you can see in tweet Recently published by Bert.
I made a very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here is a demo on the official Dutch government jobs website. The noise starts while the domain name is already typing. The code, currently only Linux: https://t.co/ZjKeOSfYff pic.twitter.com/dEr8ktIGdo
– Bert Hubert 🇺🇦 (berthuhBert) August 21 2022
those small whistles after all to throb From the keys in the Chrome address bar, which is also not too annoying, it is part of Send requests What the browser does to auto-complete suggestions. Later, the entry is made to Netherlands government websiteroughly any access to its various corners causes a new sound. This kind of sound notification indicates that the web page owner is using it Google Analytics To track traffic to your site.
Although it can be thought that the use of ChromeWe have already shown you how Install Extension Manager in this browserDue to the integration with Google Apps may be one of the launchers, the developer has also shown similar results using fire fox. Once again, we can check our status Victims from U.S A digital system is watching us At all times, even if we are not individually related to the large companies.
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