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Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

Krebs on Security · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.

Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity

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