Blacklight by The Markup Reviews and Details

Is Blacklight by The Markup good?

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• Ask HN: What are some interesting math and physics blogs you follow?

  Posts irregularly, but I've found https://mathwithbaddrawings.com to be good.* There's also https://phys.org, which aggregates content on lots of things, including physics. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/ looks relevant, but I don't read it that much (not because it's boring but just because I don't find particle physics interesting) *Tracker warning: https://themarkup.org/blacklight found 92 ad trackers and 274... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Meta to let users refuse its cross-site tracking following German antitrust intervention

  You can use the blacklight tool to find where Meta (and many other trackers) target you on other sites. You can also scan sites for keylogging, session tracking, and more for free. Source: about 2 years ago

• Mozilla pushing pop-up ad to promote its VPN service in Firefox

  Sadly so, and I sadly don't think we're headed towards another IE situation, as that at least was broken up. Google has already gone way beyond IE. They're in almost everything. On the internet side, you should look up Electron and CEF (chromium embedded framework). W3C, WHATWG, Khronos Group. As well as most any site you can think of for their third party injections; https://themarkup.org/blacklight or... Source: about 2 years ago

• America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok

  Case in point, the Washington post has 17 different ad trackers and 30 third party cookies... https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.washingtonpost.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• what is the best search engine?

  This thread was motivation to do a quantitative test on the article and what is a good browser. Security and quality are the top two attributes for me. Using https://themarkup.org/blacklight the result is super clear that Neeva is what I want. My results here: https://twitter.com/backofthenapkin/status/1637938735403913216?s=20. Source: about 2 years ago

• First time using duckduckgo

  Probably. You can use a site like https://themarkup.org/blacklight to see how many trackers are on a site. Source: over 2 years ago

• The best part about the city's new car noise enforcement detectors? The city isn't even telling the degenerates where they are

  Also, if you are going to be paranoid about nefarious purposes… look at this tool that The Markup and DuckDuckGo put together to reveal website tracking (turns out reddit and facebook and amazon and google aren’t prescient… they ARE watching you) https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: over 2 years ago

• is this safe website https://themoviezflix.co.com/

  I recommend this site to check for malware https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url and then https://themarkup.org/blacklight? To check for embedded trackers. Source: over 2 years ago

• One has 50+ trackers on the website!?!?!?!

  Here's a more useful breakdown than your typical ad-blocker displays: https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: over 2 years ago

• TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use App

  It's funny that they suggest to "Try a more private browser" and give a website to see how many trackers there are on a website, and when you use it on consumerreports, it says:. Source: over 2 years ago

• Why some people say that free streaming sites are full of trojans, hackers, ads etc?

  Dont sound like very many here know about these things..uBlock-Origin, with the right setup.All You need.Or Noscript.net.You should know these things. The movie isn't very relaxing without the knowledge.Also some lookups:https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/overview, Https://www.wmtips.com, https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/unltdentertainment.co, Https://themarkup.org/blacklight,... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Am I good?

  Its the internet, assume the worst, makes the best seem less terrible. If you want to find out if it potentially got your info and still remember the domain, you can try TheMarkup Blacklight, check the keystrokes section. Otherwise, idk. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Site Analyzing Tools

  Https://tosdr.org/ -- Summarizes TOS and what they are doing with your data but it only works on mostly just big websites like Reddit and YouTube and you can submit sites that have a TOS Available. Https://themarkup.org/blacklight -- Trackers , Cookies, Keystroke Leak , Ad Detection , etc. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How do I know which websites respect my privacy without reading the privacy policy?

  By looking it up on https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: about 3 years ago

• Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit

  I found this tool from the Markup to see how privacy respecting some websites are. It also detects keyloggers. Source: about 3 years ago

• Cookies?

  I have found this tool to quickly find out how privacy friendly websites are: https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: about 3 years ago

• Wordle tracks you more now that The New York Times owns it

  Great question. I ran them all through https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: over 3 years ago

• Whoogle question

  While its by no means a definitive way to test the privacy of an instance as you are one way or another still sending search queries to a place, the Blacklight can at least check for tracking cookies and keyloggers and such, check your instance with it to at least make sure its not doing any of that https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: over 3 years ago

• If Firefox dies, will its forks like librewolf, fennec or mull live?

  No it's themarkup.org/blacklight . Just found out. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Is searx.neocities.org legit?

  You can never be too sure with a public instance - but you can check out a site called Blacklight Radar. Source: about 4 years ago

• BlackList: scan websites and show you the specific user-tracking technologies they're using to harvest your data

  Here’s the direct link so that you don’t have to scroll through ad cancer https://themarkup.org/blacklight. Source: about 4 years ago