The creepy sound of online trackers

I am passionate about online privacy and run layers of software to protect my web browsing from surveillance. It is hard to explain to people how much they are being surveilled when they browse various websites. Then someone got this amazing idea! 💡

So this is what he did. A piece of software dubbed googerteller designed for his Linux computer that emits a scratchy beep when the computer detects information flowing out from his computer to one of Google's computers.

Watching the two videos in this post shows you how much activity is going to various surveillance systems as you browse the web. I’m happy to have 1Blocker and Little Snitch protecting me, but we also need more awareness of this problem.