Bert Hubert

Tracker Beeper

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google?

I installed it on my Mac with instructions from the GitHub page of the project:

brew tap robertjakub/teller
brew install --HEAD googerteller

Then ran it:

sudo tcpdump -nql | teller

This is mind blowing. Not in a good way.

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