We all see that hardware wallet manufacturers are constantly competing for customers, but let's see how much they value our privacy and what are they thinking about tracking.

For this purpose I used Blacklight, A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector from The Markup website.

Test Subject number 1 - Ledger wallet website      ll     Test Subject number 2 - Trezor wallet website


https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.ledger.com
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.trezor.io

As we can see Ledger wallet website has 13 Ad trackers, 17 third-party cookies, they are monitoring keystrokes and mouse clicks, they inform Facebook when you visit their website, and they allow google analytics to follow us across the internet.

Trezor wallet website has 7 Ad trackers, 1 third-party cookie, they are monitoring keystrokes and mouse clicks, they inform Facebook when you visit their website, and they allow google analytics to follow us across the internet.

Nothing to be proud here, but Trezor is winner in this competition and has less trackers and cookies but I think there should be no trackers for something like hardware wallets.
Great example is Bitcointalk forum website with ZERO tracking: https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=bitcointalk.org

Great find!  I try to mitigate further on my own, but I shouldn't have to!


"Pharmacist", I sent 2 merits to you instead of OP.  Enjoy, LOL!   

It is grim, but it is not really surprising. Pretty much every website you frequent is filled with ads, trackers, and third party cookies. Google and Facebook follow you across the internet, even if the individual site doesn't include their trackers or services. You should never rely on websites, even ones like this which should know better, to take your privacy seriously. Your privacy is your responsibility.

Stop using Google and Facebook products. Install uBlock Origin to block ads and trackers. Disable all third party cookies. Use at least Firefox, but preferably Tor. Use Linux. Use disposable emails and fake credentials.

And that's exactly why people who (at least somewhat) care about their privacy should use software (e.g. browser extensions) to block ads, trackers and javascript.

uBlock origin (for easy usage) or uMatrix (for advanced user) together with HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript are enough to not get tracked across the whole web by everyone while also browsing securely and limiting the attack surface.
Definitely recommendable.