View detailed information about visited websites It displays visited and third-party sites, connections, watched and blocked sites, along with cookies. The more sites, the larger the visualization diagram is, with emphasis on each request you make from Firefox. View an interactive graph with watched and blocked sitesĪll of this information is comprised in a graph view, which displays the relationship between the sites you visit and third-party companies that have been detected during the process. The idea behind it is to continuously monitor the websites you visit, generating a real-time overview of all the parties that you connect to and which get connected to you. It reveals the most hidden corners of the web, shedding some light into how tracking works and enabling you to interactively view active third-parties, as they connect to your data. Lightbeam comes across as a daring initiative that delivers an objective analysis of your online activity. Discover tracking-related relationships between visited websites and third-party services
Although not all tracking is bad, a big part of it certainly is and, unfortunately, there are few ways to reveal the ins and outs of this type of behavior. The trend nowadays on the web is to disregard user needs to the extent where tracking companies and services are no longer transparent, as they should be. Lightbeam is a Firefox addon developed by Mozilla in an attempt to provide you with a simple and comfortable manner of visualizing first and third-party services that might be tracking you browsing habits, along with the relationship between these services and the sites you visit.
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