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Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
telemetry-js-beacon
Advanced tools
Start with an npm install
or yarn install
.
To build the JS use npm run build-js
and to build and watch for changes use npm run watch-js
.
There's no server included with this project, but Mac users can start a simple Python server with python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
in the root.
Sets the referrer data on load if the telemetryReferrer
query string parameter is set.
<script src="dist/index.js"></script>
<script>
var telRef = new Telemetry.TelemetryReferrer();
</script>
<script src="dist/index.js"></script>
<script>
var telRef = new Telemetry.TelemetryReferrer();
telRef.(telemetryReferrer | telemetryCampaign | telemetrySubCampaign | telemetryAdAccount | telemetryReferrerUrl)
</script>
FAQs
Tracking referrals for Telemetry data-records
The npm package telemetry-js-beacon receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, telemetry-js-beacon popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that telemetry-js-beacon demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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