blacklight-cli

Use Blacklight service in your terminal

What's Blacklight?

Quote from Blacklight website: "...Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. It will scan website and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn..."

Usage

$ ./blacklight "<url>"

Example

$ ./blacklight 'kevcui.github.io'
> Inspection result:
  0 No ad trackers found on this site.
  0 Third-party cookies not found.
  0 Tracking that evades cookie blockers wasn't found.
  0 Session recording services not found on this website.
  0 We did not find this website capturing keystrokes.
  0 Facebook Pixel not found on this website.
  0 Google Analytics' "remarketing audiences" feature not found.

$ ./blacklight 'www.nytimes.com'
> Inspection result:
  10 Ad trackers found on this site.
  7 Third-party cookies were found.
  0 Tracking that evades cookie blockers wasn't found.
  0 Session recording services not found on this website.
  0 We did not find this website capturing keystrokes.
  0 Facebook Pixel not found on this website.
  ! This site allows Google Analytics to follow you across the internet.

> Ad-tech companies:
  Adobe: everesttech.net
  Alphabet: ampproject.org, doubleclick.net, google-analytics.com, google.com, googlesyndication.com, googletagmanager.com, gstatic.com
  comScore: scorecardresearch.com
  Criteo: criteo.com, criteo.net
  Microsoft: bing.com
  Oracle: bkrtx.com, bluekai.com

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