Mozilla -- Introducing Collusion

Mozilla ^ | March 1, 2012

[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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

I have not tried this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is an interactive demo.

[christx30]

Commenting on this so I can find it easily when I get home from work. This might be interesting.

[kosciusko51]

Easy to install, scary to watch.

[TomGuy]

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.

[BigSkyFreeper]

What it looks like, it opens in a tab within FF:

[Red_Devil 232]

BM for later

[dynachrome]

Thanks for the post. I am trying this tracking blocker called “ghostery”. seems to work well.

http://www.ghostery.com

[Sergio]

bkmk

[spankalib]

Thanks for posting this!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ghostery rocks for seeing and blocking tracking software.

[Last Dakotan]

I’d like to hear more feedback before installing.

[Inyo-Mono]

Thanks!

[dynachrome]

9 out of 10 times it seems to be google. Wonder who they pass it on to?

[JerseyHighlander]

bump for later review.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

bfl

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Something I would like to see is a “hacked cookie editor”, that would be able to examine cookies and alter data in them.

It would also have to edit flash cookies that can only be deleted by the Adobe settings manager website.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

[bushwon]

I installed it but not quite sure where to watch or how to watch it...

[bushwon]

ah, figured out how to watch it...now for the scary part....

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

I installed it and visited several sites.

My Collusion graph is still empty. I'm not being tracked.

[piroque]

mARKED FOR LATER,,,,thanks

[DollyCali]

BTTT.. thanks Ernest. the blocking info sounds interesting

[zeugma]

9 out of 10 times it seems to be google. Wonder who they pass it on to?

I never accept google analytics cookies. I hope it helps at least a little.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hmmm...do you use Google at al?

Or do you allow cookies at all?

Womder just exactly HOW "tracking " is implemented.

Maybe it is only for Windows.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for adding that to the thread.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for adding the info.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looking around....used Bing....found this:

Welcome to StatCounter - Visitor Analysis for Your Website

**********************************EXCERPT******************************************

3 Steps to Get Started:

• Sign up for an account
• Customize your counter or choose invisible tracking
• Paste the code into your website

[tubebender]

I wish Mozilla would rewrite the Camino Browser to optimize it for the new Apple OS

[martin_fierro]

Wait, what?

FR cookie reporting to Photobucket?

And this is with Ghostery fully enabled.

[markman46]

very interesting on who is tracking what on a web site

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

BFL! Thanks!

[Professional Engineer]

Ghostery blocked it, or the photobucket spot would have a red ring.

The output graph has been interesting to watch just today.

[martin_fierro]

It kept crashing FF under Linux. < |:(~

Had to uninstall.

[NoLibZone]

Here's the liberal "Occupy" site:

Yeah amazing what hypocrites they continue to be day in and day out.