Browser add-on that alerts you when you are sending data to Google
This browser add-on visually & audibly notifies you when Google is monitoring & recording your web browsing, e.g. you visit webpages containing Google Analytics, AdSense, YouTube embeds, and of course, when you are using Google products directly (Gmail, google.com, etc). All of these send data about you & your browsing habits back to Google.
Available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Visit http://jamiedubs.com/googlealarm to download.
http://github.com/jamiew/google-alarm
Available under an MIT License
This addon is a compiled Greasemonkey script that inspects a document for simple signatures left by Google tracking bugs. It then injects some HTML, CSS, and javascript into the page, using <audio> for sounds
To get started modifying it, fire up a terminal:
rake
is "ruby make" -- if you don't have it installed, try:
sudo gem install rake
rake build
will generate a Firefox .xpi by correctly zippingrake install
just does open -a Firefox google-alarm.xpi
rake deploy
is what I use to publish the simple website :)Get started modifying content/google-alarm.js -- all of the other files are basically Greasemonkey support files
For easy, no-recompiling development I recommend installing Greasemonkey, loading the above JS as a userscript and modifying it using GM's inline editor. When done, copy back into content/, recompile, and publish!
Images and sound are stored as base64-encoded "DataURIs" To encode new images or sound fx I recommend using DataURI Kitchen
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Jamie Wilkinson | @jamiew | jamiedubs.com Greg Leuch | @gleuch gleuch.com
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