who is tracking you? visualize webtraffic behavior

google recently provided a chrome extention Ads Transparency Spotlight in an early version that visualize what cookies are used by whom

we’re providing this extension to help increase transparency in digital advertising. In the future, we also plan to add controls for users.

further interessting is the firefox plug Lightbeam that visualise the dependence of tracked cookies in the past

quite more interessting is to display what content is loaded from a reqested website, Requestmap visualise gathered data from visited sites and the third parties

scary hmpf … prevent of tracking with tracking free browser like Brave, Ghostery or DuckDuckGo

the all new edge browser with chromium

new engine – new logo

starting january 15th microsoft will offically launch it’s updated/new browser – the open source project integration should provide a better compability on the desktop

get the chrome browser for android right here

progressive web apps

progressive web apps (pwa) getting more popular due to their ability to send push notifications – provide offline content and add to homescreen – no need to install pwa, improve functionallity above browsers with less costs compared to apps – load faster than web – enhanced conversion – scroll 60 frames per second

@google developers training

test your browser online, the featureset differs a lot between mobile platform and browser-  compatibility estimated by appswithlove.com

https://whatwebcando.today

2015 a chrome developer coined progressive web app, adopted by apple and even windows 10 joined as well

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Some good examples what pwa’s can do and how already using it:

• uber
• starbucks
• trivago
• guitar tuner
• 2048

how to deal with acceleated mobile pages (amp) in times of pwa, how to choose between faster loading or offline functionality, it’s possible to combine both like washington post

read more: acceleated mobile pages

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in an enterprise perspective it is about how to deploy applications, with mdm it is quite easy to push an app to a device, even silent installation is possible with android enterprise or apple vpp…

…but pwa’s aren’t that apps anymore and there is no api to remote set homescreen icon 

amp – accelerated mobile pages

accelerated mobile pages is an open-source standard for any publisher to load pages quickly on mobile devices, supported browser currently are

google added the ability to the amp header that makes it possible to open or copy the non-amp link, also load a webpage as non-amp with this noamp app

some web developers have expressed concern that google is getting too much say in how the web operates.

@firstpost

the intelligence spreading further with gmail integration, other mail provider can adopt amp as well – a price tag is always up to date, no matter when you open the mail or enter feedback without opening the browser

update: development of a new accelerated Mobile pages (amp) component enabling publishers to acquire user consent is underway and accepting comments.

better veil mit privacy

veil is a system to make private browsing more private – wang, an mit graduate student, said:

…the fundamental problem is that [the browser] collects this information, and then the browser does its best effort to fix it. But at the end of the day, no matter what the browser’s best effort is, it still collects it…

it doesn’t require any modification on the browser, because it doesn’t rely on browsers – a compiler can create a veil version of a site

veil was presented at the network and distributed systems security symposium or read at mit news