True Sight

This Firefox extension aims to expose today's most omnipresent agents on the Internet: CDNs.

Did you know that at least about 70% of the global internet traffic goes through CDNs? These third parties are hired by website owners (often for "free"!), to speed up their websites and protect them against attacks, among other things.

Most of the times, neither the site owners nor the CDN providers themselves make any effort to make apparent to us, the end users, the presence of the latter as intermediaries. In fact, in many cases there is an effort to disguise their presence as much as possible. This is not nice, specially considering that some CDN providers offer services in ways that present important security and/or privacy considerations to us.

Your newfound True Sight power alone will not save you from anyone, but it will hopefully bring you awareness. I think we all deserve to at least know when some giant corporate ninja is sitting right between us and the real servers that we so innocently try to reach everyday. How you use this power is up to you.

Read the description on AMO to learn specifics on how this extension works.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @n8v8R for the icon, and for all the feedback.

Privacy

This extension neither collects nor shares any kind of information whatsoever. See the full privacy policy on AMO if you need a slightly longer statement telling you the same.