Disconnect - Tracking Leads to Hacking Solutions Business Tracker protection for business Consumer Tracker protection apps Lightbox Privacy analysis & intelligence API Every site is listening. Hear what tracking sounds like. Visit Webtone Solutions Business Consumer Lightbox Hidden tracking is the new hacking. We expose and block it at the source. Your personal data is secretly collected across the internet at massive scale. AI weaponizes it like never before. Passive collection becomes precision attacks on you, your employees, and your customers. Disconnect cuts off the data supply. Get Started For Business Enterprise tracker protection For Personal Apps for individuals Lightbox API Privacy intelligence data "Nation-state actors and cybercriminals shift from 'breaking in' to 'logging in.'" — Cloudflare 2026 Threat Intelligence Report (March 2026) Industry Standard Tracker Intelligence 350M+ People Protected Integrated by default into major browsers worldwide +50T Trackers Visualized Mapping the hidden internet at scale 6T+ Trackers Blocked Yearly Protecting 350M+ users from ~50 trackers per day 15 Years of Tracker Intelligence Industry standard since 2011 Learn how 4 of the top 5 browsers Disconnect's tracker intelligence has been leveraged by browsers that ship to billions of users worldwide. Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Samsung Internet The Problem Trackers are embedded everywhere. They silently build the data profiles attackers weaponize against you. 75% of websites have hidden trackers HTTP Archive Web Almanac 70% of mobile apps send data to trackers before any consent dialog Kollnig et al., Oxford ~50% of inbox emails contain tracking pixels Proton Mail 42%of all web requests on U.S. Army networks were to tracker domains. Trackers from banned apps including TikTok were still present in web traffic. U.S. Army Cyber Institute, West Point (February 2026) Your Data Has a Price How attackers access and weaponize your data. Hint: attackers use AI too. Hackers don't have to hack anymore — your personal data is for sale directly through data brokers and indirectly through sophisticated ad tech. Step One Buy data direct or targeted ads Data brokers aggregate data about you from different tracking sources, including your IP, location, real name, email, phone, and much more. Attackers buy this data directly, and also leverage sophisticated advertising platforms. Ad campaigns allow attackers to hyper-target advertisements based on thousands of audience segments. Step Two How ads reveal your data When you click or even see an ad, the advertiser receives your unique device identifiers, location, behavioral profile, and the audience segments used to target you. Anything you submit on their site or app — email, name, form data — or that they can track also gets tied directly to your profile. Step Three Precision AI-powered attacks Your personal data becomes AI fuel for surveillance, stalking, blackmail, social engineering, and precision phishing — all aimed at the real you. These attacks evolve as AI tooling matures. Documented cases include high-level government tracking and harassment of individuals at places of worship, healthcare clinics, and immigration offices. No hacking required. Real-time bidding is "the biggest data breach ever recorded." It broadcasts personal data 178 trillion times per year across the U.S. and Europe. — Irish Council for Civil Liberties (2022) Leading Research and Technology Our data drives headlines. Leading journalists trust Disconnect to expose what others can't find. February 2026 Featured TikTok's pixel secretly collects health data from crisis and cancer support sites. Disconnect provided the technical analysis for BBC Future's investigation into TikTok's expanded web tracking pixel. Our team found that the updated pixel collects information in unusual ways compared to its competitors, intercepting data from Google Tag Manager and transmitting health information without site owners' knowledge. "They're silently capturing that data without the site owner explicitly sharing that information with TikTok," said Patrick Jackson, Disconnect's CTO. Read the BBC investigation Read our full technical research May 2026 Latest "A native TV app is a data firehose." Casey Oppenheim, Disconnect's CEO, told Slate that smart TV apps capture rich behavioral data like device type, session length, household fingerprint, IP address, ad exposure, and the context of what was watched before and after. AI-enhanced tracking can now identify who in the household is watching, infer interests and political leanings, and shift ad targeting from the household down to the individual. Cross-device identifier matching makes the Smart TV app the new "holy grail" of ad targeting, and most TV platforms have weaker, buried privacy controls compared to web and mobile. Read the Slate article Video Disconnect research on AI data threats featured on Today Show. 2025 Data-based research on fingerprinting prevalence on the web. 2019 NY Times used Disconnect tech to test 250 iOS apps and record how they're tracking. 2021 Disconnect discovers thousands of Zoom calls left exposed on open web. 2020 Video NBC News highlighted our research into dating apps sharing personal data. 2020 It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? 2019 Show more More press Why Disconnect Choose your path. Disconnect identifies and stops tracker infrastructure before it collects data. For your organization Business Plug Disconnect's tracker intelligence into your existing security stack — cloud, VPN, SWG, DNS, etc. Network-wide coverage across every device, app, and browser. 12–14× more trackers blocked vs. enterprise defaults Deploys via existing infrastructure, no new agents ~4 human-verified updates per week Protect Your Workforce For yourself Consumer AI-powered attacks now target ordinary people through their leaked data. Disconnect blocks the tracker infrastructure that makes precision phishing, social engineering, and surveillance possible. Tracker + fingerprint blocking on iOS, Android, and the web 2.4× faster page loads, 39% less data usage The same intelligence that powers Firefox & Edge Get Personal Protection For builders Lightbox API Privacy intelligence for products, audits, and research. Forensic analysis on demand for any app, website, or tracker — the platform trusted by 4 of the top 5 browsers. 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