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A guide to Indicator Guides

We recently added new information to some of our signature OSINT guides

Craig Silverman
Craig Silverman

Oct 20, 2025

Hi!

I hope you’re having a great October. I’m one of the co-founders of Indicator and I’m writing to let you know about one of our most popular resources.

Since launching, we’ve published five in-depth Indicator Guides that can help make you a better analyst, investigator, researcher and/or consumer of online information. Each guide is a deep dive into a single topic or OSINT technique. We invest a huge amount of research and testing into our guides, which is why I want to let you know about them.

Indicator Guides are one of the key benefits we offer to paid members. You can upgrade now to read the guides featured below, and to access our monthly members-only workshops. If you're between jobs, located in a lower-income economy, or otherwise unable to pay the full amount, please email me for a special discounted membership rate.

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Here’s a look at what you get!

Indicator guides

One of our most popular guides is the Indicator Guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods. It provides an overview of 10 tools and more than half a dozen techniques that you can use to determine ownership of, and connections between, websites. We just updated it with a new tool.

The Indicator Guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods

A deep dive into new and established ways to fingerprint site content and infrastructure, uncover ownership, and more.

indicator.media/p/indicator-guide-to-connecting-websites-together-osint-tools-tags-ids-favicon

We added a new tool and included updated features for three others in the Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content.

The Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content

We tested 11 tools ranging from full-featured continuous capture apps to one-off screenshot extensions for grabbing long webpages

indicator.media/p/web-capture-tools-hunchly-forensic-osint-ubikron

We updated our guide to investigating online reviews to share how to find the exact time that a Google review was posted.

How to investigate online reviews

A guide to analyzing online reviews and spotting suspicious accounts

indicator.media/p/how-to-investigate-online-reviews-trustpilot-google

The Indicator Guide to AI labels provides the best and most up to date breakdown of how eight major digital platforms have implemented labels on AI-generated content. We recently updated it to include Pinterest’s expanded settings, which allow you to filter out AI pins by topic.

The Indicator Guide to AI labels

We’ve collected in one place how and when major platforms label AI content

indicator.media/p/the-indicator-guide-to-ai-labels

And our latest guide, published just last week, is the best breakdown you’ll find anywhere about how to use digital ad libraries in investigations.

The Indicator Guide to investigating digital ad libraries

Ad repositories can help with backgrounding people and companies, and with investigating influence and disinformation campaigns

indicator.media/p/the-indicator-guide-to-investigating-digital-ad-libraries-meta-google-linkedin

You can upgrade now to access all of our guides, reporting and investigations, and to join in our monthly members-only workshops. As noted above, please reach out if you’d like to inquire about a discounted membership or a group rate.

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