I Used The Markup's Blacklight to Audit 98 Adult Sites. One Records Your Keystrokes.

I scanned 98 adult websites with Blacklight and VirusTotal. Here's the methodology, the raw findings, and the three sites running active surveillance on their users. The Tools Blacklight ( themarkup.org/blacklight ) is a real-time privacy inspector built by The Markup. You give it a URL, it loads the page in a headless browser, and reports back what's running: ad trackers, third-party cookies, canvas fingerprinting, session recording scripts, and keystroke loggers. It's the same tool journalists used to investigate Facebook's tracking infrastructure and how popular websites surveil visitors . VirusTotal aggregates scan results from 94 security engines. Submit a URL, get a consensus verdict on whether the domain is serving malware, phishing pages, or malicious scripts. Neither tool requires authentication. Neither notifies the site being scanned. The data is what the page serves to a regular browser visit. The Process For each of the 98 sites: Submit the URL to Blacklight. Record: ad tr