Panopticlick

How Unique - and Trackable - Is Your Browsesr?

Installation

The easiest way to set up an instance of Panopticlick is with docker, but it can be installed on a host machine if desired.

Partial Installation on Host

You may need to install libmysqlclient-dev and python-dev for Debian-based systems.

pip install -r requirements.txt
cp config_example.py config.py

Then modify the relevant variables in config.py

Now, you can run

python main.py

Full Docker Installation

First, build the image

docker build -t panopticlick .

To generate self-signed certificates for the Panopticlick hosts, cd into examples/nginx and run

./generate_self_signed_certs.sh

Then, from the git root, run

docker run -d --name panopticlick-db \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changeme \
  -e MYSQL_USER=panopticlick \
  -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=changeme \
  -e MYSQL_DATABASE=panopticlick \
  -v $(pwd)/examples/sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d \
  mysql
docker run -d --name panopticlick-app \
  --link panopticlick-db:db \
  panopticlick
docker run -d --name panopticlick-nginx \
  --link panopticlick-app:app \
  -v $(pwd)/examples/nginx/extra:/etc/nginx/extra \
  -v $(pwd)/examples/nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d \
  -p 443:443 \
  nginx

Viewing Locally

Unless you've changed the server names specified in config.py, you'll have to add the following line to your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 panopticlick.eff.org trackersimulator.org firstpartysimulator.org firstpartysimulator.net eviltracker.net do-not-tracker.org

If you generated the certs yourself, in Firefox you'll have to go into private browsing mode to see the "I Understand the Risks" dialogue. You may also have to manually go to each of the above domains and go through the certificate exception process for each one in order for the application to be fully functional. Or with chrome, you can start chrome with the --ignore-certificate-errors flag, but beware this will ignore all certificate errors.

License

This project is licensed under the Affero General Public License, version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.

Credits

This is a rewrite of the original Panopticlick codebase, developed by Peter Eckersley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Currently maintained by William Budington.