Third-party browser tracking -- and how to give users more control over it -- is a hot topic right now.
Microsoft and the
FCC have similar plans,
one former Google employee recently took the wraps off his take, and now there's another Chrome extension which turns the tracking blocker knob up to eleven.
It's called
Do Not Track (DNT) ChromeBlock, and it gives you an easy way to shut down around 90 different Web tracking networks. Just about every well-known harvester is listed: Google, MSN, Alexa, Doubleclick, Omniture, Quantcast, Tynt and Cleeki, to name a few. You can choose to block networks as DNT detects their presence on a page, or you can opt out in advance by clicking the
show global settings link. The overlay on DNT's browser action button tells you how many networks are detected and how many you've chosen to block.
Do Not Track works nicely in tandem with
Disconnect, so those of you looking for as much tracking protection as possible can go ahead and install both extensions. Even if you're not concerned with blocking the connections, it's very interesting to see which sites you browse are sending data to different providers.
Install ChromeBlock for Google Chrome
ed note: sorry for the confusion, the extension's name was changed prior to this post being published
Tags: advertising, chrome, disconnect, do not track, DoNotTrack, extensions, google, google chrome, GoogleChrome, privacy, tracking
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Subscribe to commentsJayayess1190Dec 16th 2010 2:40PM
It is gone.
Lee MathewsDec 16th 2010 2:42PM
@Jayayess1190 It was re-listed with a different name, and our post has been updated. It's here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epanfjkfahimkgomnigadpkobaefekcd?hl=en-US
Danny BoyDec 16th 2010 7:50PM
I already use AdThwart for Chrome and subscribed to EasyList+EasyPrivacy. Will Chrome Block add anything to my set-up?
RobDec 20th 2010 4:13PM
@Danny Boy
Nope - if you're using Easylist it probably will not add much - other than setting the opt-out cookies for ad-networks.
MxxConDec 17th 2010 2:01AM
there's also Ghostery https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij
it does pretty much the same thing...it's avail on chrome, firefox and opera
MxxConDec 17th 2010 2:05AM
actually looking at database of this chromeblock, it looks like they stole it from Ghostery and it looks like its an old database to that...extension's screenshot shows the same error as Ghostery database used to have and they have since corrected it after i notified them. :)