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  1. Made the mistake of opening the Firefox Lightbeam extension after a long long time absent. #lightbeamtrying to clear data 20 minutes later, and eating RAM like candy corn…

    #lightbeam #ramIsCheap

  2. @chikl Wow, #lightbeam

    I remember using this ages ago, but I had completely forgotten about it.

    Reinstalled now. Thanks!

  3. Today I looked at some shoes on one specific website from my phone, then started showing me for similar shoes, but all from /different/makes. Checked the site with the plugin for and it doesn't doesn't show any specific connections elsewhere and the site doesn't have a cookie dialog. The mobile browser used () has an ad-blocker which was enabled. Curious as to what caused the extra adverts...

  4. TIL heute morgen:
    #firefox und #lightbeam AddOn Update sorgt für (vermutlich ungefähr) doppelten RAM-Bedarf. Ergebnis bei $VIELEN Fenstern und $NOCHMEHR Tabs: Crash mit OOM, wohlgemerkt der Firefox, nicht der #linuxkernel

    Abhilfe: `firefox --safe-mode`, AddOn deaktivieren/löschen, mehr freien RAM genießen.

  5. Thanks @plwt - I hadn't reliased tha someone (@chikl ) had been keeping updated last year [1] after mozilla gave up on it in 2019 [2]

    It's a great graphical tool as a plugin for firefox that I always loved for showing you what the web site your visiting is accessing from third party web sites - and some are really scary ...

    [1] - lightbeam.chikl.de/
    [2] - support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/l

  6. #Lightbeam è una #Firefox #Extension che permette di visualizzare e registrare le chiamate effettuate dai siti web a terze parti. Oltre a questo permette di boccare i tracker.

    Nell'immagine, ecco cosa succede quando si accede repubblica.it e corriere.it (e con chi parlano ambedue)

    Si trova qui: lightbeam.chikl.de/

    Ne parliamo il 7 ottobre a depreDATI.eu, il laboratorio di autodifesa dalla sorveglianza digitale

    Vi aspettiamo

    #GAFAM #privacy

  7. #TIL about Lightbeam:

    "... a Firefox browser extension that uses interactive visualizations to show you the relationships between third parties and the sites you visit."

    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

    Homepage here has more details and a bit of back story:

    lightbeam.chikl.de/

    #web #surveillance #Lightbeam #FireFox

  8. After Updating to #Firefox 102.0, the #Browser displays a page "Was ist neu in Firefox", and this page contacts the following #ThirdPartySites: www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
    So #Mozilla tells #Google that I just updated my Firefox installation...
    Strange enough, #PrivacyBadger says nothing, but #Lightbeam displays the #trackers
    #privacy #dateninkontinenz #pistage

  9. @jeybe
    Die Lightbeam-Extension wurde ursprünglich von den Mozilla Labs entwickelt und wird von Princiya auf GitHub weiter gepflegt. Leider steht aus Zeitgründen seit Januar 2022 keine für den aktuenlle Firefox aktualisierte Version zur Verfügung: github.com/princiya/lightbeam-
    Wir benützen #Lightbeam auf www.dateninkontinenz.ch um auf Datenabflüssen von sensiblen Websites hinzuweisen.
    #dateninkontinenz #datenschutz #FOSS #firefox

  10. @cryptgoat
    Hi cryptgoat, I heavely make use of the most current version of #Lightbeam for the Website www.dateninkontinenz.ch
    Here is a link to the current discussion on GitHub:
    github.com/princiya/lightbeam-
    It would be great to get it up and running again.
    #Tracking #Browser #webbrowser #dateninkontinenz

  11. Oh no, the great visualization add-on #Lightbeam for #Firefox has disappeared once again. Lightbeam has always been a great tool to show how third parties track you across different visited websites and was often used in the #CryptoParty scene. I have been using this fork since Mozilla ceased development: addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/

    Does anybody know about a proper fork or other tools that help visualizing trackers while using your web browser?

    #Tracking #Browser #webbrowser

  12. Da möchte man seit langem mal wieder Website-Tracking mit #Firefox #Lightbeam visualisieren, da erfährt man, dass es eingestellt wurde :-(

    Das war so ein praktisches Tool! Schade.

    soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/l

    #Datenschutz #FOSS

  13. Voici le premier article d'une série de trois sur le #pistage #web.
    Il est tout public dans un esprit de vulgarisation.
    Un second s'attardera sur une visualisation avec #lightbeam et un troisième traitera des mesures à prendre dans son navigateur.
    Bonne lecture 😀
    blog.movoscope.org/suivi-%C3%A

  14. @sandro That's true, the rendering needs further work. For our use case it's perfectly fine to activate #Lightbeam only when needed.

  15. Hey @mozilla, sauriez vous ou on disparu les addon #collusion et #lightbeam pour #Firefox ?

  16. Sadly #Mozilla has decided to stop development of the great visualization add-on #Lightbeam for #Firefox: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/l
    Lightbeam has always been a great tool to show how third parties track you across different visited websites and was often used in the #CryptoParty scene. Alternatives do not seem to be available.

    Anyone up for a fork? Mozilla even encourages one.