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See who can track you.

A passive, 100% local privacy informer for Chrome. It watches the page you're on and names the companies watching you — then shows what your installed extensions can access.

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🔒 Never blocks · never stores your browsing · never sends a byte off your device
WatchDawg popup showing trackers and owners on a page

What it does

Trackers & owners

Counts third-party trackers on the current page and labels who owns them — “owned by Google / Facebook” — powered by DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar.

Cross-site risk

Plain-English risk read: tells you when a page can identify you across sites, with the raw request list one click away.

Extension capabilities

A capability-only audit of your installed extensions — what each one can access, based on declared permissions. Read-only.

100% local

No analytics, no telemetry, no storage. Per-page snapshots live in memory and vanish when you navigate away.

Install (developer / unpacked)

  1. Clone or download the repo from GitHub (or grab the latest release ZIP).
  2. Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
  3. Click Load unpacked and select the project folder.
  4. Pin WatchDawg, visit a content-heavy site, and click the icon.
A Chrome Web Store listing is in preparation. WatchDawg is non-commercial — free, no ads, no paid tier — because two of its bundled tracker datasets are NonCommercial-licensed.

Open data, fully credited

EasyPrivacy

Core is-tracker blocklist. Dual GPLv3 / CC BY-SA 3.0. © The EasyList authors.

DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar

Ownership labels. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. © 2020 Duck Duck Go, Inc.

Disconnect

Categories & supplementary trackers. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. © 2010–2026 Disconnect, Inc.

Loaded separately

The three datasets are bundled verbatim and reconciled in memory — never merged or redistributed as one list.