The Markup's Blacklight Tool Now Has New Tracking Info and Caching Options

Cybersecurity Tech Brief By HackerNoon

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Blacklight, The Markup’s real-time web privacy detector tool, has exposed privacy violations on COVID-19 vaccine websites and has spurred legislative action.
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We’ve added the option to ‘force’ a request, overriding Blacklight’s cache and triggering a brand-new scan of the page. This option is off by default, and can be set from the ‘options’ dropdown.