Lab-9 Instructions

Step 1: Track who is tracking you online
Install or add a browser add-on Disconnect. This add-on is available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.

After installing the extension, visit the following web sites and check who is tracking you online with the Disconnect tool.

Website 1: 🗞 The New York Times
Visit the NYT website and see what Disconnect reports!
Sample results
Screenshot Disconnect 2

Website 2: 💵 Forbes
This time, try viewing Disconnect's report for Forbes via the "Visualize page"

Sample results
Screenshot Disconnect 2

Website 3: 🐈‍⬛ Purina
Preview!
Screenshot Disconnect 3

🤔 Which website had the most trackers? Why do you think that is?
Step 2: Identify who is looking over your shoulder
After playing around with Disconnect, in this step, we will use Blacklight to inspect websites and reveal the user-tracking technologies that these websites use.

Go to Blacklight - The Markup and input the following websites and check the Inspection Result:

🗞 The New York Times
💵 Forbes
🐕 Purina