Who Targets Me

Find out who targets you with digital advertising

Who Targets Me: Discover Online Political Advertising Targeting You

"Who Targets Me" is an Edge add-on enabling users to identify and scrutinize digital advertising targeting them, particularly political ads on Facebook. Additionally, by using it, you can anonymously contribute to international research studying the influence of social media advertising on election outcomes. The extension safeguards your privacy, only capturing the ad content and targeting details and not capturing any personal data.

Add-on stats

Users: 2,835
47
Rating: 3.70
(6)
Version: 2.7.0 (Last updated: 2024-10-25)
Creation date: 2020-12-13
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 4.08M

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Add-on summary

Find out who targets you with digital advertising Keep track of how political campaigns target you with social media ads while anonymously helping international research projects understand how election results are influenced by social media advertising.

The plugin identifies political ads from major parties and candidates, so you can review their content and targeting. The ads you contribute may be shared with reputable research projects and journalists. Our goal is to exemplify the transparency accountability people should expect from social media platforms and political campaigns to increase the trustworthiness of modern democracy.

The project has been covered by the BBC, New York Times, CNN and many others.

Who Targets Me is currently available in ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN, HUNGARIAN, RUSSIAN, LATVIAN, PORTUGUESE, SWEDISH, FINNISH, FRENCH, DUTCH, CROATIAN, UKRAINIAN, HEBREW, BULGARIAN, CZECH, ESTONIAN, GREEK, MACEDONIAN, POLISH, ROMANIAN, SLOVAKIAN, SLOVENIAN and MALTESE.

Users in the UK, across the EU, US, Canada, Ukraine and Israel will get personalised results as soon as they start to see political ads in their feed.

A full list of our international partners can be found on our website: https://whotargets.me/international

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User reviews

perfektes tool zum Erfassen des Polit ad targeting.
by Juli, 2021-12-13

funktioniert nicht, aber greift schön daten ab...
by Daniel, 2021-05-01

This is yet another example of failed cell-phone Microsuxesk mentality. Nearly totally useless.
by Klein,, 2020-08-21
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Risk impact

Who Targets Me requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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