Privacy Crawler

Privacy Crawler

Crawls a website for cookies and fingerprinting

What is Privacy Crawler?
Privacy Crawler is a Chrome extension that recursively follows links on websites to generate reports on cookies, including domains, expiry times, and values. It also identifies JavaScript that may be used for browser fingerprinting. This extension deletes all cookies and patches the JavaScript environment for improved performance. It is recommended to use in incognito mode while crawling websites.
Stats
Users: 457 ▼ -10
Version: 0.7 (Last updated: 2018-06-10)
Creation date: 2018-06-10
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • cookies
  • downloads
  • tabs
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 30.45K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Privacy Crawler recursivly follows links from page(s), and produces a report showing

  • what cookies first appeared at what page, together with their domains, expiry times and values;
  • what Javascript is accessed that could be used to fingerprint the browser.

Warnings and recommendations

When starting to crawl, this extension will delete all cookies in the current environment. It is recommended to run crawls in incognito mode to avoid logging you out from all of your sites.

It also patches the Javascript environment to

  • determine which functions and objects are accessed;
  • make time faster, since some trackers are set to load pixels and Javascript after a delay, and crawling takes too long if we waited in real time.

Therefore to avoid strange behaviour on sites, it's recommended to only have this extension enabled when you are crawling.

User reviews
Works great for research.
by Abraham Abraham, 2020-07-20
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Safety
Risk impact

Privacy Crawler is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive 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 Privacy Crawler if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Privacy Crawler has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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