Telemetry Analysis
Adds browser functionality to analyze and display cookies & web requests on a page to classify them as used for advertising, analytics or other purposes.
What is Telemetry Analysis?
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how many companies are involved whenever you load a webpage? Do you ever considered what other websites you visit they are involved with? Can you know how they intend to use this information? Advertising? Telemetry? Tracking?
This extension makes understanding the relationships between you and them as simple as a picture. (That hopefully speaks a thousand words).
In more technical language this project is a Firefox reporting extension that provides users with classification information about 1st & 3rd party online trackers & cookies embedded by ad-networks and publishers in most pages. It including classification via Pi-Hole block-lists & Easy-List as categorization lists, as well as domain mapping & cookie classification utilizing existing resources such as OpenCookieDatabase & Libert (2015) domain-organization mapping.
It adds a browser action to analyze scripts & telemetry on the page, and is tested with the latest version of Firefox.
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Risk impact
Telemetry Analysis is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Telemetry Analysis if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Telemetry Analysis has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.