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Blacklight: website privacy inspector (The Markup)
A free scanner by the newsroom The Markup: enter a URL and it visits the site as a user would and reports third-party cookies, ad trackers, session recording, keystroke logging and fingerprinting. An emulated visit, not a final word.
When to use itYou want a quick first look at a website’s tracking before a proper audit.
- Published by
- The Markup (non-profit)
- Written for
- international
- For
- developers, researchers and lawyers
- Cost
- free
- Languages
- English
- Provisions
- ePrivacy Directive Art. 5(3)
Open the toolthemarkup.org
Description by overview.legal; the tool itself is the publisher’s.
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