Get Untethered — Who's Watching

Paints the toolbar icon red/yellow/green so you can see who's watching a page at a glance — click for details.

When you open a website, dozens of third-party companies are often watching in the background — ad networks, behavior trackers, personalization engines, identity-resolution services, and data brokers. Most of this happens invisibly, and most people have no idea who is collecting what. Get Untethered turns the lights on. How it works When you visit a page, Get Untethered observes which outside companies that page contacts. It looks each one up in a curated dictionary that translates technical domain names into plain language ("Monetate — a personalization engine that tailors content and offers based on your behavior") and groups them by what they actually do. The result is a single traffic-light verdict in your toolbar: 🟢 Green — Just running the store. Only first-party systems, payment processors, and basic infrastructure. 🟡 Amber — You're being tracked. Outside companies are watching or fingerprinting what you do here, for ads, analytics, or fraud detection. 🔴 Red — You're being personally profiled. Personalization engines, identity-resolution services, or data brokers are active — the kind of machinery used for individualized targeting and pricing. Click the icon for the full breakdown, including which specific company is doing what. What it doesn't claim This is important: Get Untethered shows you what tracking and personalization software a site uses. It does not — and cannot — tell you that you were charged more than someone else for a product. Pricing logic lives on a company's server, not in your browser. No tool running on your computer can prove an overcharge. Think of Get Untethered as a flashlight on the machinery, not a receipt for an overcharge. A red verdict means a site has loaded the kind of software used to profile and personalize. It is a warning, not a verdict on any specific transaction. Privacy Get Untethered collects nothing. It has no server. It has no account system. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no error reporting. Everything happens locally in your browser: - It observes which third-party domains a page contacts. - It looks each one up in a dictionary bundled with the extension. - It keeps a temporary per-tab count, cleared automatically when you close your browser. That's the whole picture. The code is small and readable, and the source is the proof. Who it's for Anyone who shops online. The tracking and personalization infrastructure that decides what you see — and increasingly, what you're charged — is invisible by default. Get Untethered makes it visible. Learn more at getuntethered.ai