Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome

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Version: 3.1.2
Last Update: 2021-10-05

Overview

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome is a Chrome extension developed by Rachel_hxh. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome is 3.1.2, updated on 2021-10-05.
10,000+ users have installed this extension. 6 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome uses interactive visualizations to show users the relationship under third parties.

[We are working on the new extension to protect your privacy with GDPR: Please feel free to try our new extension: https://tiny.cc/rcm-chrome]

- Thunderbeam starts recording connections as soon as it's installed.

- To start visualizing your online interactions, open a new tab, navigate to a site, and then check back to the Thunderbeam tab.

- Thunderbeam is used for our research study. If you consent, and only if you consent, your browser data will be used for research. Please note that even for those who consent, no personal data belonging to the users will be used (and data is hashed to prevent re-identification); any data collected will be used only for the purposes of non-commercial research, and all data will be deleted after the research project completes.

- The code behind our plugin is completely open source on github for your inspection. We are happy to receive your feedback (pull requests/issues etc): https://github.com/socsys/Lightbeam_Chrome.

Acknowledgements:
- Our sincere thanks to the original version of thunderbeam, which is from Firefox (no longer supported, as of October,2019): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lightbeam-extension-firefox-no-longer-supported

- Our thanks also to any users who choose to support us by sharing their data. Your work is contributing to our research. Here are some papers published by our study:
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/netsys/datasets/tracking-the-trackers-papers/

- Updates: Our extension supports checking cookie synchronization from now on

Rating

6 ratings

Total Installs

10,000+

Information

Last Update

2021-10-05

Current Version

3.1.2

Size

1.31MiB

Author

Rachel_hxh

Website

None

Category

Developer Tools

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avatar Yan-Maurice McNiven
2021-04-09

Fantastic tool, eye opening to see just how observed and tracked we are!

avatar Yongnan Chen
2019-10-25

great to transfer this to Chrome, and FF's seems to stop services

avatar 陆维翰
2019-10-21

Great!

avatar Birgitte Wandall
2022-08-14

Used to work well, but now it does no longer open, and I get a pop-up saying it has closed down. It then does not restart. Enjoyed it before, would love for it to work again.

avatar Birgitte Wandall
2022-08-14

Used to work well, but now it does no longer open, and I get a pop-up saying it has closed down. It then does not restart. Enjoyed it before, would love for it to work again.