The Onion (theonion.com)
“The Onion is an American digital media company and news satire organization” – Source
Surveillance is no laughing matter
The Onion may have trouble coming up with extreme enough satire to outdo the ridiculousness of actual news these days but one thing they don’t have a problem with is tracking you and profiling your behaviour.
In fact, they’re rather good at it.
Among the Alexa Top 500 News sites, ordered by number of trackers, The Onion was one of the worst, coming in 10th with 75 trackers.
You are the product The Onion sells to their advertisers. Their satirical articles are the bait. Once they’ve reeled you into their site, they expose you to a plethora of third parties that track and profile you across the web.
Needless to say, we’re not amused.
Ethical design violations
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33 trackers
Exposes you to third-party sites.
After Better
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49% Safer
58 requests blocked
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14% Lighter
520.18 KB saved
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39% Faster
11.61 seconds saved
| Before | After | Improvement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requests: | 119 requests | 61 requests | 49% |
| Weight: | 3.53 MB | 3.02 MB | 14% |
| Speed: | 29.5 seconds | 17.89 seconds | 39% |
Statistics by Better Inspector based on the page as on Saturday, November 10th 2018
About Better
Better is a Safari content blocker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It protects you from trackers and malvertising by enforcing the principles of Ethical Design.