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I forgot who asked, but I was discussing blocking tracking cookies
and while browsing. I mentioned Ghostery... The question I could not answer was if it is firefox only or cross-browser compatible... (Obviously, it works on non-windows OS's as well because I use it.) Ghostery is a browser tool available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer. It scans the page for scripts, pixels, and other elements and notifies the user of the companies whose code is present on the page. These page elements aren't otherwise visible to the user, and often not detailed in the page source code. Ghostery allows users to learn more about these companies and their practices, and block the page elements from loading if the user chooses.It allows you allow/disallow all trackers as a group or individually. So you can disable doubleclick while allowing Google+ to track you. (if desired) It will even delete LSOs from Flash and Silverlight. Whether you disable trackers or not, ghostery displays a list of found trackers when you load a page so you can see what lengths a website goes to in order to get information about you. I found that many pages only use 1 or 2 trackers, but some go to great lengths and try to track you with a dozen different cookies... http://www.ghostery.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- |
