{"id":27556,"date":"2024-05-06T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27556"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:12:14","slug":"googerteller-sound-of-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/googerteller-sound-of-trackers\/27556\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of online trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know that we\u2019re being tracked online<\/a>, but the sheer scale of it continues to stagger<\/a> \u2014 at least when this scale is properly communicated. Dry facts like \u201cYour browser connected to 456 advertising trackers in the past hour\u201d usually don\u2019t get the point across. The problem is that such numbers lack context. They fail to connect our online actions with their unseen consequences. But what if we could somehow make online tracking visible \u2014 or audible? Electronic music artist Jasmine Guffond<\/a> did just that a few years back\u2026<\/p>\n

The sound of Google tracking<\/h2>\n

She created a browser extension called Listening Back<\/a>, which plays a sound every time your browser saves, modifies, or deletes a cookie file. Since these events accompany practically any user action, the result is both eye-opening (or ear-opening, if you will) and rather bizarrely beautiful.<\/p>\n