Cookie Lens

Translate technical cookies into plain English privacy explanations.

🍪 COOKIE LENS — YOUR PRIVACY DECODED Most websites drop dozens of cookies on your device the moment you visit them. Some are harmless. Some remember your login. Others silently follow you across the internet, building a profile of everything you read, click, and buy. Until now, understanding them required being a developer. Cookie Lens translates every cookie on any website into plain English — what it does, who put it there, and whether it puts your privacy at risk. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT IT DOES ──────────────────────────────────────── 🔍 IDENTIFIES EVERY COOKIE Instantly analyses all cookies on the page you're visiting. No technical knowledge required — each cookie gets a plain English explanation of its purpose and who is likely behind it. 🏷️ CATEGORISES BY TYPE Every cookie is sorted into one of five categories: • Strictly Necessary — keeps the site working • Functional — remembers your preferences • Analytics — measures how you use the site • Tracking/Marketing — follows you for advertising • Unknown — purpose unclear, flagged for transparency ⚠️ SECURITY ATTRIBUTE SCANNING Each cookie is inspected for five critical security flags: • Secure — is it protected from interception on public Wi-Fi? • HttpOnly — is it shielded from JavaScript attacks (XSS)? • SameSite — is it protected against cross-site request forgery? • Domain — is it first-party or set by a third party? • Path — what parts of the site can access it? 🎯 RISK SCORING (A to F) Every cookie gets an individual risk score from 0–10 and a grade from A to F, based on its category and security configuration. A tracking cookie sent over HTTP with no protections scores very differently to a necessary session cookie correctly configured. 📊 PRIVACY HEALTH SCORE A page-level score summarises the overall cookie picture — what percentage is tracking, how many are unknown, and what the aggregate risk grade is. 📋 EXPORT YOUR REPORT One click copies a plain-text summary to your clipboard — ready to paste into an email, a WhatsApp message, or a privacy complaint. A second click downloads a beautifully formatted HTML report you can save, print, or share. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHY COOKIE LENS IS DIFFERENT ──────────────────────────────────────── ✅ NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Install and go. No sign-up, no email, no subscription. ✅ COMPLETELY PRIVATE Cookie Lens never sends your data anywhere. Everything is analysed locally inside your browser. What you see stays on your device. ✅ MINIMUM PERMISSIONS Cookie Lens requests only the permissions it genuinely needs — nothing more. No reading your browsing history. No accessing your personal data. ✅ BUILT BY SECURITY PROFESSIONALS Developed by FoxSecIntel, Cookie Lens applies real cybersecurity knowledge to a problem everyone faces but few people understand. The risk scoring model is based on industry-standard security attribute analysis. ✅ FREE, FOREVER No premium tier. No ads. No upsell. Just transparency. ──────────────────────────────────────── PERFECT FOR ──────────────────────────────────────── 👤 Privacy-conscious users who want to know what's happening on the sites they visit every day 🛡️ Security professionals who want a fast cookie audit without opening DevTools 📰 Journalists and researchers investigating data practices of websites 🏢 Compliance teams checking whether sites meet GDPR cookie requirements 👨‍👩‍👧 Parents who want to understand what cookies are tracking their family ──────────────────────────────────────── HOW TO USE IT ──────────────────────────────────────── 1. Install Cookie Lens 2. Visit any website 3. Click the 🍪 icon in your toolbar 4. See exactly what is tracking you — in plain English The badge on the icon shows the cookie count for every site you visit, updating automatically as you browse — so you always have a sense of what each site is doing before you even open the extension. ──────────────────────────────────────── By FoxSecIntel — building tools that put privacy back in your hands.