Tag: GHOSTERY

So, maybe I should just say that "Google Alarm makes noises," because Google is always collecting your data. Whether it's Google.com, YouTube, or any site with Google Analytics, chances are you've picked up some Google cookies during your browsing travels. If you want to know when that's happening, Google Alarm is the Firefox or Chrome add-on for you. I shouldn't make it sound like it's ...

With more than 1.3 million downloads, the Ghostery add-on for Firefox is obviously an extremely popular way to know who's keeping tabs on your Web browsing. All kinds of tracking goes on behind the scenes while you surf. Google, Omniture, comScore, and others are gathering data wherever they can. If you'd like to know what's going on in the background but you surf with Google Chrome, you can ...

Ghostery is a Firefox add-on that alerts you when there are scripts running on a web page that track your personal information. We first covered Ghostery earlier this year. At the time, all it did was pop up a window letting you know what scripts are running on a given page. But the developer plans to release a major update that adds script-blocking capabilities. Ghostery 2.0 won't exactly be an ...

Ghostery is a plugin for Firefox that alerts you when you visit a web site using "web bugs," which are basically scripts that track your information for one reason or another. Ghostery currently tracks more than 100 different types of web bugs, and alerts you if a web page is using scripts from sites like Sitemeter, Amazon, or PollDaddy by displaying a purple window with a list of bugs on top of ...