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Tracker Beeper (2022)

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? It also reports to Google if you clicked the button “apply for this job”, or even “call us for information”. Continue development on Linux until the necessary features are implemented and stable Perhaps simultaneously make an Apple / OSX version available that runs with a single click Create a Windows version Perhaps perhaps try to implement something similar on iOS and Android, which will not be easy: phones prefer to snitch on you in full privacy

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