Bugnosis is a software project developed by David Martin and founded by the Privacy Foundation at University of Denver. Its an Internet explorer add-on that detects the so called web bugs; 1x1px immages allowing third party websites (often adservers or web analytics firms) to track users over networks of syndicated sites. With respect to some of its features and goals, I can consider it as a forefather of my cookiecensus project.
In his contribution to the O’Reilly volume book Security and usability (downloadable excerpt here), its author describes the tool and its underlying design choices with plenty of details…
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