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Detects whether a website uses Utiq, the telco advertising tracker, and warns you. Utiq Detector tells you, in real time, whether the website you are visiting uses Utiq — the advertising tracking technology built by major European telecom operators (Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Vodafone). Unlike a cookie, Utiq identifies you at the network level: your mobile or fixed connection, tied to your phone number or line, can be turned into an advertising identifier that follows you across sites, browsers and devices — and that clearing cookies does not stop. Utiq Detector helps you see where it is used and take back control. WHAT IT DOES • Clear per-tab icon: red when the site uses Utiq, green when it doesn't, gray while analysing. • A discreet in-page notice the first time a tracked site is detected (shown once per site, not on every page). • One-click opt-out to the official Utiq Consent Hub. • One-click reporting: if a site uses Utiq but isn't listed yet, you can help everyone by reporting it. HOW DETECTION WORKS Three complementary layers: 1. A community-maintained reference list of known Utiq sites. 2. A local scan of the current page (scripts, page variables, storage, consent elements). 3. Read-only observation of network calls to Utiq infrastructure. PRIVACY FIRST — this extension protects you, it does not watch you • All analysis happens locally, in your browser. Nothing about the pages you visit is sent anywhere. • No browsing history, no full URLs, no cookies, no identifiers, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. • The only data that ever leaves your browser is a bare domain name (e.g. example.com), and only when you explicitly click “Report this site”. Your IP is never stored. • Full privacy policy: https://utiq-tracker.online/privacy-extension PERMISSIONS The extension requests only what detection needs — read the current site, compare it to the list, and observe Utiq network calls. These permissions are never used to collect or transmit your browsing. Open source: https://github.com/CedHaurus/utiq-detector Data source: https://utiq-tracker.online (CC BY 4.0) Privacy policy : https://utiq-tracker.online/privacy-extension