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Agorism
04-22-2011, 01:59 PM
It's called ghostery. It keeps track of which are tracking you and allows you to block them as well.

http://www.ghostery.com/

http://www.ghostery.com/images/Illus_HP1.png

Sola_Fide
04-22-2011, 02:04 PM
Cool.

Agorism
04-22-2011, 02:07 PM
They have an article about it on huffpost tech section today, which is how I found it.

bkreigh
04-22-2011, 02:14 PM
mehh...ill give it a whirl.

Just downloaded it for safari.

Agorism
04-22-2011, 02:17 PM
they had a good article on it at huffingtonpost tech section, which is where I found it.

It works for firefox, chrom, ie and safari.

daniel1989
04-22-2011, 02:28 PM
i am using http://beHidden.com for my online protection
portable, no download, high speed, different protocols http, socks, ssh, good customer support...

DamianTV
04-22-2011, 03:13 PM
Holy shit! I went to their website, and the first thing I noticed was they did NOT try to issue me a Tracking Cookie!

Lucille
04-22-2011, 03:15 PM
Thanks! I just downloaded it.

teacherone
04-22-2011, 03:17 PM
i am using http://beHidden.com for my online protection
portable, no download, high speed, different protocols http, socks, ssh, good customer support...

lol
sign up to surf anonymous today.

no thanks.

Agorism
04-22-2011, 03:55 PM
Those proxy servers slow you down though. The ad ons don't.

muzzled dogg
04-22-2011, 04:27 PM
rpf better not have some data mining script

Romulus
04-22-2011, 05:06 PM
rpf better not have some data mining script

lol oops?

DamianTV
04-23-2011, 05:00 AM
Ok, update on this. The IE Plugin resets your cookie settings to default so it ACCEPTS ALL COOKIES. (IE Plugin Only)

Agorism
04-23-2011, 07:56 AM
You click the ghost, and you can change it to accept no cookies in its menu. I use it on safari though.

specsaregood
04-23-2011, 08:54 AM
rpf better not have some data mining script

uhm, you are out of luck. its all going straight to the cia google.
See here:


var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2978250-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

Agorism
04-23-2011, 09:18 AM
"Google Analytics" is tracking people on this website it says.

Proph
04-23-2011, 11:22 AM
You can disable google-analytics with ad-block plus though (I *think*).

Sola_Fide
04-23-2011, 11:28 AM
This is all over my head but it pisses me off anyway.

DamianTV
04-23-2011, 03:48 PM
Then it is time to learn. It isnt as difficult as you think.