Decentraleyes
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| Maintainer | Thomas Rientjes |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| Current version | 2.0.14 (April 1, 2020) |
| operating system | Platform independence |
| programming language | Javascript, HTML, CSS |
| category | Tracking blocker |
| License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
| German speaking | Yes |
| https://decentraleyes.org | |
Decentraleyes is an open source and free browser extension (English: "Add-on") with which the tracking of users by calling up third-party libraries in content delivery systems (CDN) of websites can be prevented in many cases. It is currently (as of August 2020) available for Firefox (including ESR versions), Pale Moon , Chrome and Opera in over 30 languages.
Digitalcourage recommends Decentraleyes to improve privacy.
Utility
The increasing spread of third-party scripts integrated in Internet pages allows user tracking by the provider of the script, who thus receives insight into which user has accessed which page and when. If the user does not want to give this information to protect his privacy, he can use an ad blocker to prevent such scripts from being loaded. Mostly he then makes the experience that the page does not work properly without the scripts or shows no content at all. The Decentraleyes browser extension enables the content of the pages to be displayed correctly without revealing personal data to a third party (script provider). It can be seen as a supplement to existing ad blockers such as uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus .
functionality
In simple terms, the extension prevents Internet pages from accessing the respective external service for frequently encountered libraries, and instead makes this available locally on the user's computer. In this way, the external service no longer receives any information about which Internet pages have been accessed by a computer and which topics a user has obtained information about on which pages.
Supported CDN networks
Google Hosted Libraries, Microsoft Ajax CDN, CDNJS (Cloudflare), jQuery CDN (MaxCDN), jsDelivr (MaxCDN), Yandex CDN, Baidu CDN, Sina Public Resources and UpYun Libraries.
history
Decentraleyes appeared for the first time towards the end of 2015 as an extension for the Firefox browser. December 2016 a fork was created with Local CDN , which was used to provide the functionality for the Chrome browser, since Decentraleyes was not yet available for Chrome at the time. As part of the redesign of Mozilla's rules for Firefox add-ons, the Decentraleyes program code for version 2.0.0 was completely rewritten in October 2017. In addition to general bug fixes and revision of the appearance, support for languages that are written from right to left has also been incorporated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Rientjes: Synz Solutions . Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ↑ LICENSE.txt master Thomas Rientjes / decentraleyes GitLab . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ↑ Mozilla Firefox - a free web browser for a free internet. In: Digital courage . December 23, 2019, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Tracker locks in: ct 2019 (Heise Verlag), issue 8, page 180
- ↑ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/
- ↑ Martin Brinkmann: Decentraleyes for Firefox loads CDN resources locally . Ghacks. November 23, 2015. Accessed June 6, 2020.
- ^ Martin Brinkmann: Local CDN for Chrome. In: ghacks.net. February 15, 2017, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ James Fray: first commit. In: Local CDNs Git Repository. December 1, 2016, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Release v2.0.0 Synzvato / decentraleyes GitHub . Synzvato. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ↑ Decentraleyes version history - 14 versions - Add-ons for Firefox (en-US) . Retrieved June 6, 2020.