Every moment you spend online, youre being tracked.
It can be hard for the average person to wrap their head around.
WebXray, a new tool made by a former Google Engineer, wants to make it easier.
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WebXray is a search engine that anyone can use to see how, specifically, websites are tracking you.
It didnt work out.
Its all very sci-fi, and not in a good way!
Libert left Google after two years and went back to work on WebXray.
The problem is that figuring out how all this stuff works is incredibly hard.
People should be asking their politicians what the hold up is, and to increase budgets.
For WebXray, lawsuits are part of the business plan.
Everybody gets 25 free daily searches and access to a simple rundown of every cookie used on the site.
The sites motto is privacy is inevitable.
But in aggregate, were moving in the right direction.
The reason I started the company is I think we can make it go faster.
On Monday, Googlebacked out of the plan.
In an email sent to Gizmodo, Google pushed back on Liberts assertion.
Respecting user privacy is our top priority and to claim otherwise is wrong, a Google spokesperson said.
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