Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome uses interactive visualizations to show users the relationship under third parties.

What is Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome?

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome is a featured Chrome extension by Rachel_hxh. This extension has 14,359 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.50, and is most similar to Who is Tracking Me and TrackingObserver. The latest version, 3.1.2, was updated a year ago.

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By: Rachel_hxh

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Users: 14,359 ▲ 94

Rating: 4.50 (6)

Version: 3.1.2 (Last updated: 2021-10-05)

Creation date: 2020-06-29

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
<all_urls>
tabs
cookies
downloads

Size: 1.37M

Email: Click to see

URLs: Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 7431 ▼ 20

Other rankings

#394 in Developer Tools ▲ 1

#49 in research keyword ▼ 1

#80 in study keyword ▼ 6

#176 in firefox keyword ▲ 1

#194 in data keyword

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Summary

[We are working on the new extension to protect your privacy with GDPR: Please feel free to try our new extension: https://tiny.cc/rcm-chrome]

- Thunderbeam starts recording connections as soon as it's installed.

- To start visualizing your online interactions, open a new tab, navigate to a site, and then check back to the Thunderbeam tab.

- Thunderbeam is used for our research study. If you consent, and only if you consent, your browser data will be used for research. Please note that even for those who consent, no personal data belonging to the users will be used (and data is hashed to prevent re-identification); any data collected will be used only for the purposes of non-commercial research, and all data will be deleted after the research project completes.

- The code behind our plugin is completely open source on github for your inspection. We are happy to receive your feedback (pull requests/issues etc): https://github.com/socsys/Lightbeam_Chrome.

Acknowledgements:
- Our sincere thanks to the original version of thunderbeam, which is from Firefox (no longer supported, as of October,2019): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lightbeam-extension-firefox-no-longer-supported

- Our thanks also to any users who choose to support us by sharing their data. Your work is contributing to our research. Here are some papers published by our study:
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/netsys/datasets/tracking-the-trackers-papers/

Safety

Risk impact

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome if you trust the publisher.

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Risk likelihood

Thunderbeam-Lightbeam for Chrome has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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User reviews

Used to work well, but now it does no longer open, and I get a pop-up saying it has closed down. It then does not restart. Enjoyed it before, would love for it to work again.