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Do you want to know which sites do track you even w/o visiting them?

34 pointsby lillycatabout 13 years ago

5 comments

lucb1eabout 13 years ago
Have it installed for a few weeks now, it fails for many domains. If you click a link from example.com to example.org, it will already mark example.org as 'potentially tracking you on example.com' (because it sent the referer of example.com to example.org <i>once</i>).<p>Also it reports nearly every domain I visited in the past weeks to be tracked by lesswrong.com, which is rather impossible.<p>Lastly, it gets cluttered very fast. Not within 5 minutes, but a day later no user could make sense of it anymore. There should also be a clear overview with things like top domains (which would be Facebook for their Like button, Google ads and analytics, and probably more).
mddaabout 13 years ago
There's a very impressive demo at <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/demo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/demo/</a> too.<p>One thing I didn't understand from the diagram in the article is that some grey circles are connected to each other : Is that from that that the browser sees, or is it linkages that are known to exist (outside of the raw data)?
beniaminoabout 13 years ago
The article implies that Mozilla is on our side, and wouldn't sell the user to marketing firms. But if you visit mozilla.org, collusion reveals that Mozilla (potentially) pass your information to webtrendslive.com.
silentscopeabout 13 years ago
I use Do Not Track +. I'd be curious to see if there's someone with a technical background who has a preference based on experience.
NeutronBoyabout 13 years ago
Combinations of NoScript, CookieMonster and RequestPolicy ensure the graph will stay nice and clean :)