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Mozilla -- Introducing Collusion
Mozilla ^
| March 1, 2012
Posted on 03/01/2012 2:58:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Discover who’s tracking you online
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
(Excerpt) Read more at mozilla.org ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: firefox; mozilla; webrowser; webtracker; webtracking
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To: ShadowAce
fyi
I have not tried this.
To: All
There is an interactive demo.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Commenting on this so I can find it easily when I get home from work. This might be interesting.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:05:03 PM PST
by
christx30
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Easy to install, scary to watch.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:11:40 PM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I will check it out ...
I recently loaded DoNotTrack+ from http://abine.com
It is an add-on for both IE and Firefox. It shows and allows blocking of trackers.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:12:30 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What it looks like, it opens in a tab within FF:
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:16:24 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(You have entered an invalid birthday)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:19:33 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for the post. I am trying this tracking blocker called “ghostery”. seems to work well.
http://www.ghostery.com
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:23:25 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:35:35 PM PST
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:35:51 PM PST
by
spankalib
(The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
To: dynachrome
Ghostery rocks for seeing and blocking tracking software.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:38:05 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’d like to hear more feedback before installing.
To: TomGuy
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:40:33 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
9 out of 10 times it seems to be google. Wonder who they pass it on to?
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:43:21 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:48:05 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: kosciusko51
I installed it but not quite sure where to watch or how to watch it...
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:49:10 PM PST
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
To: kosciusko51
ah, figured out how to watch it...now for the scary part....
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:59:03 PM PST
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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