A list of tools and resources to track the trackers.
Sousveillance (/suːˈveɪləns/ soo-VAY-lənss) is the recording of an activity by a participant in the activity, typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies.[14] The term "sousveillance", coined by Steve Mann,[15] stems from the contrasting French words sur, meaning "above", and sous, meaning "below", i.e. "surveillance" denotes the "eye-in-the-sky" watching from above, whereas "sousveillance" denotes bringing the camera or other means of observation down to human level
Inverse surveillance is a subset of sousveillance with a particular emphasis on the "watchful vigilance from underneath" and a form of surveillance inquiry or legal protection involving the recording, monitoring, study, or analysis of surveillance systems, proponents of surveillance, and possibly also recordings of authority figures and their actions.
- The Sousveillance Scenarios | Steve Mann's Blog
- McVeillance: McDonaldized surveillance as a monopolization of sight
- Who Targets Me? (source code): A browser extension that tracks which entities are targeting which demographics with adverts.
- Exodus Privacy (GitHub): εxodus analyses Android applications. It looks for embedded trackers and lists them.
- Blacklight: Scans websites and reveals the specific user-tracking technologies on the site.
- FouAnalytics - Ads By Domain
- Mozilla Lightbeam: Firefox Lightbeam add-on for visualizing HTTP requests between websites in real time.
- uBO-Scope: A tool to measure over time your own exposure to third parties on the web.
- Facebook Political Ad Collector (source code): Browser extension to help ProPublica collect political advertising on Facebook.
Chaffing is the practice of adding noise to datasets to hide or obscure activity.
WARNING: Running ad chaffers carries security –and potentially legal– risks. DO NOT RUN these without fully understanding these risks.
An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile(s) and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.
AdNauseam is a lightweight browser extension that blends software tool and artware intervention to actively fight back against tracking by advertising networks. AdNauseam works like an ad-blocker (it is built atop uBlock Origin) to silently simulate clicks on each blocked ad, confusing trackers as to one's real interests. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and enable bulk surveillance.