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Telemetry Analysis

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.

Install
Provides a sitemap with links to all the entities involved when loading a page, from simple and benign. To nebulous and interesting maps with hundreds of entities and connections. There is often more than meets the eye, and many organizations owned by a single one. With constellations forming over time, due to large providers who interact with many sites. Web Request classification and domain mapping with ownership information. All the following, available in the browser with a single click: And detailed relationship and purpose breakdown with ownership and interactions explained. It also includes a more detailed breakdown of the individual elements and their classifications & understood purpose, including cookie & request counts. Cookie classification for 1st and 3rd party cookies and individual cookie breakdown.