Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
KrebsOnSecurity covers DecryptAds, a free service that scrapes and correlates adtech data to reveal which entities track users across sites and apps.
KrebsOnSecurity wrote about DecryptAds, a free service that scrapes and correlates adtech data. The service makes it simple to identify which entities are responsible for ads shown on websites and data harvested by mobile apps, information that is semi-public but traditionally walled away inside large advertising platforms. No security incident is involved; the piece is an introduction to a privacy-research tool.
- DecryptAds scrapes and correlates adtech data on who serves ads and harvests app data.
- The underlying data is semi-public but previously hard to parse and walled inside ad platforms.
- The service is free and aimed at users wanting to understand ad-based tracking.
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From the original article
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms.
By BrianKrebs · krebsonsecurity.com
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