There’s been a big stinky splash about Verizon using a privacy-decimating “perma cookie” so advertisers can track Verizon customers across the web. It works by Verizon injecting a Unique Identifier Header (UIDH) at the end of HTTP connections. As Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford, explained, “In short, Verizon is packaging and selling subscriber information, acting as a data broker on real-time advertising exchanges.”

Security researcher Kenneth White whipped up a sniff test that checks if Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, Bell Canada or Vodacom are actively sending a unique identifier tracking beacon to every site you visit. Make sure you are connected via LTE/4G/3G and not Wi-Fi, then go here to check if any information follows “Broadcast UID.”

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