Developer makes new tool to track all data you’re sending to Google

Privacy features are becoming a talking point for many smartphones and laptop users. In fact, a lot of the launch keynotes focus a lot on privacy features. This provides more control over your own data, or so you think. A developer has built a new way in which you can track the data going specifically to Google. A developer named Bert Hubert has come up with a tool that beeps every time his system sends any data to Google.

The developer has built a new tool called Googerteller, which is currently only compatible with the Linux-based operating system. Bert Hubert has used all the publicly available Google IPs in order to make this tool workable. While we can’t be sure if this was an exhaustive list of IPs, it did work in this particular instance.

Hubert also put up a video demonstrating the use of the tool to make things clear. Unsurprisingly, we hear a lot of beeps in the little time Hubert used the tool on a Google Chrome browser. Right from the moment, he starts typing, the address in the search bar, the beeps start ringing. He then visits a travel site and it seems your date preferences, and location data are being to Google.

Here’s a look at the video:

I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already. Code, currently Linux only: https://t.co/ZjKeOSfYff pic.twitter.com/dEr8ktIGdo

— Bert Hubert 🇺🇦 (@bert_hu_bert) August 21, 2022

A lot of viewers of the video told the developer that this was expected as he used the Google Chrome browser. However, Hubert went on to record another video of using the same tool on a Mozilla Firefox browser. Even in that video, we hear almost a similar number of beeps per minute, if not more.

I did a demo of the Google noisemaker that makes some noise every time your computer talks to Google. This demo was based on Google Chrome & made lots of noise. People told me to expect this, since it was Chrome. Here is a video showing the exact same thing on Firefox: pic.twitter.com/btFbIbEivg

— Bert Hubert 🇺🇦 (@bert_hu_bert) August 22, 2022

While this tool cannot act as conclusive evidence of the amount of data that’s being tracked by the search giant, it does give us a hint of the amount of data that is being tracked by the search engine.

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