It happens everyday. A friend sends you a link to something you want to read, but as the site loads, a chill runs down your spine. The cookies attack! Accept all, a button tells you. Decline all, Save my preferences, or the dreaded vagueness of a “Preferences” button. No matter where you go on the internet, these confusing UI patterns are sure to haunt you and so in the spirit of the season, we want to see your interpretations of “spooky cookies!”
Head to glitch.com/jams right now to learn more about what jams are, how to submit your projects, and see what the community made for past jams. And a major thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s #maps jam!
We can’t wait to be terrified by your spookiest cookies!
It works by using Puppeteer to open the URL in a headless browser, intercepting all requests in real-time, and analyzing each URL. It checks against the DDG Tracking Radar on GitHub (using GitHub’s API to read the files client-side, since the repo is huge—it’s also a fork to avoid breaking things). Idk if this is the best approach, though.
It’s still very much a work in progress, but I think it’s pretty neat so far. You can see a lot of tracker details, but I’m working on adding more features and more tracker info. I’m also open to suggestions for a better name, features, and design—feel free to comment or DM me if you have ideas.
Can’t wait
