WhoTracks.Me Tab

[chrmod]

Facts:
In the past Ghostery 8 and Ghostery Insights were showing historical stats.
Ghostery 8 has been updated to Ghostery 10, Ghostery Insights has been discontinued.
Some long term Ghostery users reached out to us with questions around historical stats on what has been blocked.

How historical stats used to work:
The Ghostery extension records the following information each day:

• list of observed activities
• number of visited pages
• number of trackers blocked
• number of trackers modified

This data was previously visualised as a line chart:

A new version of this data visualization should take the form of a full page, to not be limited by real estate constrains in the Ghostery panel. Additionally, this page can be used as:

• Pin Tab
• saved to PDF to share with others
• Ghostery Browser new tab page (this may require additional features so not a good starting point)

The main goal is to inform users of the magnitude of online tracking. The WhoTracks.Me tabs will show statistical information, not much different to ones published to ghostery.com/whotracksme, but based on data coming from this single user browser.

(Note on data privacy: none of user data is ever shared with Ghostery services - this should be mentioned somewhere on this page)

While designing, it may be useful to take a look on other privacy browser (like Brave) new tab pages as most of them will show some form of statistical stats on it.

For the first iteration, please do not invent features that cannot be provided by that data that is already provided. Subsequent iteration may start to collect additional data if needed.

Components that should be present on the page:

• WhoTracks.Me wheel
• some kind of time selector, for example by day, by week, by month, by year (time ranges at granularity of a day are possible)

Possible components:

• rankings: top trackers, top activity (non-tracker), new trackers
• charts
  • "line" to show trends
  • "sankey" to show trackers categories

Additional requirements:

• should be easily usable on mobile