Every Time Your Data Is Sent to Google, This Linux Add-on Beeps to Warn You
The add-on was created by Bert Hubert, a software developer and a member of a Dutch oversight board. It sources information from publically available Google IP addresses, which is what sets off the beeps.
It’s scarier than it has any right being. As you can hear by listening along to the example video above (which uses the Dutch government jobs website), as Hubert types into the search bar in Google Chrome, the system beeps and makes noises.
What that means is that Google is collecting data on your keystrokes in the address bar (which it does). This is part of what informs the autofill prompts when using Google Chrome.
But there’s more to the video. As Hubert arrives on the page, we hear a beep. As he clicks any listings on the page, we hear a beep.
Additionally, after putting up the video testing the add-on with Google Chrome’s data collection, Hubert put up this test using Firefox. The machine continues to beep.
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You can install Googerteller on Linux-based operating systems, though a Twitter user claimed that they got it working on MacOS.