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Want to See Who Is Tracking You on the Internet in Real-Time?

Mozilla Add On Shows Third Party Tracking of Your Internet Movements in Real TimeIf you are concerned about increased tracking of your movements on the Internet, here’s a function that could at least give you the peace of mind of knowing who is watching where you go. Mozilla Firefox has developed an add-on for its web browser that will show you in real-time the third-parties that are tracking your Internet activity.

(Related: Google’s new privacy policy rolls out today despite opposition)

Mozilla describes the add-on named “Collusion” as an experimental feature that will show you “how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.” PC World has more on how the add-on works:

The browser extension creates a real-time graph of all the tracking cookies being deposited on your browser as you move around the Web.

The add-on can differentiate between behavioral tracking (cookies that record links you click on, what content you view, searches you make on a site, etc.) and other potential tracking cookies. Collusion’s graph also makes it easy to see which sites are using the same behavioral tracking advertisers.

PC World notes that as of right now, the add-on — initially developed by Mozilla engineer Atul Varma but is now supported by the Ford Foundation — only lets you see who is tracking you, but it will someday give you the ability to turn off the cookies.

Mozilla Add On Shows Third Party Tracking of Your Internet Movements in Real Time

Example web of tracking. (Image: Mozilla Collusion)

The Daily Mail points out that Google, for example, with its new privacy policy will have an increased capability to target ads more specifically to users as it will be tracking them across its various products and services. According to the Daily Mail, Collusion was introduced at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference this week by CEO Gary Kovacs. Here’s some of what Kovacs had to say about the add-on:

“Collusion will allow us to pull back the curtain and provide users with more information about the growing role of third parties, how data drives most Web experiences, and ultimately how little control we have over that experience and our loss of data,” said Kovacs.

On a larger scale, according to the Collusion website, users will be able to share the information about their tracking — if they so choose — to build a database about web tracking:

We’ll combine all that information and make it available to help researchers, journalists, and others analyze and explain how data is tracked on the web.

If you don’t choose to share this data with Mozilla, PC World says that it lives locally on your computer.

Check out this visual representation of how Collusion works:

If you’re interested in getting this add-on for your Mozilla Firefox browser, visit this site. PC World has some advice on how to use the add-on. It states that while using the Internet as usual, after installing the add-on, all you have to do is click on the Collusion icon to see the graph of tracking it has been creating for you. What PC World describes as “glowing circles” are the sites you’ve visited during your session and the lines are attached to a cookie. PC World explains the difference between the red and gray circles you may see:

Red circles are behavioral tracking cookies, and gray circles represent non-behavorial tracking cookies. But, Mozilla says, those gray sites may still be tracking you across the Web. In my tests, the gray circles tended to be cookies from social networking sites such as Facebook, MSN, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

If you’ve visited several sites and the graph is cluttered, PC World recommends hovering over a site you’ve visited on the graph to see more clearly the cookies that were connected with that site.

Mozilla Add On Shows Third Party Tracking of Your Internet Movements in Real Time

For example, hovering over Wall Street Journal, this is what PC World saw in its own evaluation of the add-on. (Image: PC World)

See a demo of how Collusion works here.

Comments (83)

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  • xpowderx
    Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:28am

    While that Mozilla program is nice, the Firefox addon Donottrackplus http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php is better, as it tracks these guys and blocks them at the same time.

    Opting out blocks you from targeted ads

    Dedicated Networks
    Quantcast
    Nielsen
    Media6degrees
    RadiumOne
    Zedo (Undertone Networks)
    AudienceScience
    Collective
    14 companies tracking you: 14 blocked

    Doubleclick Blocked here
    Omniture Blocked here
    Quantcast Blocked here
    Google Analytics Blocked here
    Netratings Site Census Blocked here
    Media6 Degrees Blocked here
    Google Adwords Conversion Blocked here
    RadiumOne Blocked here
    Zedo Blocked here
    Revenue Science Blocked here
    Comscore Beacon Blocked here
    AdMeld Blocked here
    New Relic Blocked here
    ChartBeat Blocked here

    Much better program, and a much better solution. And YES, the Blaze has 25 active tracking cookies! They are all blocked!

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  • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:39pm

    You want “safe”? You want “private”? You want “the truth”? Well, you can’t handle the truth! Unless you start here:

    Gibson Research Corporation
    http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

    ShieldsUP!
    https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
    “The Internet’s quickest, most popular, reliable and trusted, free Internet security checkup and information service. And now in its Port Authority Edition, it’s also the most powerful and complete. Check your system here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely.”

    Security Now!
    http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
    “Our weekly audio security column & podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. TechTV’s Leo Laporte and I take 30 to 90 minutes near the end of each week to discuss important issues of personal computer security. Sometimes we’ll discuss something that just happened. Sometimes we’ll talk about long-standing problems, concerns, or solutions. Either way, every week we endeavor to produce something interesting and important for every personal computer user.”

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    • Obama Snake Oil Co
      Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:54pm

      I just went and ran the program. It said my computer was complete stealth. I take that to be a very good thing.

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  • SychinLegacy
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:51pm

    Oh my god. Install this website and go about your normal web browsing habbits. Nothing out of the ordinary. A few sites tracking a few cookies. Then go to the blaze. My graph EXPLODED. Apparantly the Blaze is shipping out more cookie tracking than the rest of every other website I normally visit…combined…

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    • Atrocities
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:45pm

      @ SychinLegacy – I call ******** (BS) on your comment as well. I only have 15 trackers and they are all related to google, facebook, and other news sites attached to the BLAZE. Then again, I often get virus warnings whenever I go to MSNBC, CNN, or Bloomberg. So I stopped going to those sites. They are compromised.

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Install Ghostery, a plug-in not limited to FireFox. It just looks at the code in the webpage you‘re on for it’s information. It doesn’t make any “contacts” to the Internet itself (the safest way to be safe).
      http://www.ghostery.com/
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

      “Ghostery sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.”

      “After showing you who’s tracking you, Ghostery also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we’ve found them are just a click away.”

      “Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don’t trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands.”

      BTW, Ghostery reports 7 tracking companies (!!) on THIS THEBLAZE webpage:
      - Google Analytics
      - Quantcast
      - Omniture
      - Doubleclick
      - Revenue Science
      - ChartBeat
      - Zedo
      Shame on you, TheBlaze.

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    • M1A2_Tanker
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:15pm

      My Ghostery report shows 19 Right now on TheBlaze.com:
      Audience Science, Chart Beat, Double Click, Facebook Connect, Google+1, Google AdWords Conversion, Google Analytics, Media6Degrees, NDN Analytics, New Relic, Omniture, Parse.Ly, Quantcast, RadiumOne, Scorecard Reasearch Beacon, Twitter Button, Vertical Acuity, Visual Revenue, Zedo.

      There is usually this many on this site, I have been using Ghostery and Ad-block Plus for years. I also use StartPage.com for my searches They are by far the most private and secure search engine, They search Google results via a proxy server without using an IP. You get the Google results you want without all the BS and tracking that you don’t want.

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    • Bluntobj
      Posted on March 5, 2012 at 3:45pm

      Thank god for Ghostery. I also use NoScript, to keep other non-tracking but potentially harmful scripts at bay, found here:

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

      and

      http://noscript.net/

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  • Dauh
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:29pm

    I wish people would stop being so concerned about internet tracking. It’s not about privacy. It’s marketing. (I’m in this business.) They don’t look at or care WHO visitors are (you’re simply a unique numeric ID). They just want to know the behavior on their websites. They want to know what visitors click and do, so that they can target marketing ads and know which campaigns are effectively bringing in revenue.

    Now, when the government uses web analytics, that’s a different story…

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:23pm

      I agree with what you say here, but on the other hand, this tracking could potentially be used against you.

      Technology is neither good nor bad….It’s how you use it. And then again, maybe I would just rather not be tracked….as a number or as a person….

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    • Tigress1
      Posted on March 5, 2012 at 3:34pm

      I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to technology, but yesterday something strange happened to me here on The Blaze. My name on here is “Tigress1” and I live in Memphis, TN. Yesterday after making a post on this site a pop-up ad popped up on the right side of my post. The add had a woman dressed in a tiger outfit with a tail that was moving back and forth. The caption said “Buy Tigressa carpet (or flooring – I forget which) and the store was located in Memphis, TN. Yeah, it was effective in that it caught my attention, but it was VERY creepy! Coincidence?

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    • devo8466
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:13am

      That may be DAUH, but it is often a or some individuals within your type of business who due to their own personnel beliefs who will use personnel information to “attack” a web-surfer, only because they don’t agree with your interest or beliefs. And it matters not whether or not this type of action violates your company policy or not.

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  • FlatFoot
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:06pm

    Meh. I use IE 64-bit for online bills paying only. No browsing. I use FireFox only for my browsing. No way in heck I will ever install Google Chrome. I’ve never had Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Etc Ad Nauseam accounts either. Ever. Google browsing history, etcetera, is turned off and I immediately delete Google’s all inclusive tracking cookie the first time I open the browser after my weekly cookie sweep. I also use Ad Blocker Plus so I don’t see any ads. Ever. Otherwise, whomever can track my web browsing all they want to. I delete my cookies every weekend and sometimes more often. Other cookies I have problems with are in my cookies block-list so they’re completely blocked from ever making onto my computers anyway. I don‘t have any plans to assist in an overthrow of the government via the interwebs anytime in the foreseeable future so I don’t visit radical websites unless I click a link from a news story or something but then I use Private Browsing when that rarely occurs. Any and all other privacy concerns that I have are real-time and real-life… as in face-to-face in person.

    Seems like a nifty add-on but if the Ford Foundation has anything whatsoever to do with it then it is evil. Plain and simple. So I will not ever install this add-on.

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  • bradb
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Go to abine.com, they have a do not track add on for all three major browsers.

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    • patrioticdale
      Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:54am

      @BRADB
      I’ve had Do Not Track Plus for a while. Here‘s who’s tracking you while your on the Blaze.
      Companies Tracking:
      . Double Click
      . Omniture
      . Qauntcast
      . Media6 Degrees
      . Google Adwords Conversation
      . Zedo
      . Revenue Science
      . Google Analytics
      . Netratings Site Census
      . Radium One
      . Comscore Beacon
      . New Relic
      . Chartbeat
      Along with 7 as networks and 3 social networks. To me, it‘s not such a big deal that there’s companies and indiviuals that are gathering data about your searches and web activity. But as long as I can run a program like Do Not Track Plus and block them, I don’t care. Some people it doesn’t bother, but I like to have my privacy. It’s a personal thing.

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  • Xyskalla
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:58pm

    Wow, I just installed this. The Blaze is sending my data to about 40 other places! No joke! Try it.

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  • Lion420
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:00pm

    Maybe that‘s why my security software doesn’t like firefox!

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  • Mary Just
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:10am

    What moron would use Google or gmail after receiving this information. You don’t hear one word from these cowardly Republican politicians about stopping this before it got started.

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    • Texas.7
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:28pm

      …sheepishly raising my hand :)

      I kept getting viruses or worms or something on Firefox, which is why I switched. I have no problem with Chromium, but am concerned about privacy (I did opt out the week prior when the Blaze put up a story about it).

      I would like to go back to Firefox, but they didn’t keep me safe before, and my virus software didn’t help. And now, it appears they use some Google code for security, or maybe they did. Not sure if there are any good options.

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    • slindsley
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:29pm

      Any outrage or attempts to stop this before it started from the “brave” Democrats?

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    • gr8t2bfree
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Oh?……….and the dems are all over this? Bozo alert!

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    • gr8t2bfree
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:14pm

      Oh, and the current administration is supporting this as part of their “terror watch” program!

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  • Texas.7
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:54am

    Maybe a teckie can translate this, but it sounds like our info is currently being transmitted to Google even now, if we use Firefox. (I am on Chrome right now and after reading all this am thinking of switching back to Firefox)

    http://techdows.com/2012/02/firefox-to-stop-sending-googles-cookie-when-sending-requests-for-safe-browsing-api.html

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    • Texas.7
      Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:32pm

      Thank you Blaze for this story, and everyone else for your tips- I’m all fixed up now. :)

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:29am

    I just installed it. It’s pretty nifty. But I’ve also long since installed the Firefox add-on Request Policy, which allows you to set a per-site and per-page policy for what third-party sites the site or page you’re visitting may pull in additional content (or cookies, or scripts) from. As such, the Collusion graphs that my browsing generates are rather… sparse.

    In a very real way, Collusion is just a visualizer for Request Policy. I see a node on Collusion I don’t like, I go into RP and forbid requests to that node. Done. No need to wait for the authors of Collusion to add that capability to Collusion.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:42am

      Ghostery looks pretty interesting too. Thanks for the clue. I’ll play with that later, though.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Isn’t it funny that the Blaze is running this story? I run firefox and have TACO installed. It is telling me that the Blaze is currently trying to run 16 different cookies on my machine. Is that called Irony?

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  • TADTAD
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:28am

    Yeah, track me all you want. Not a one way street, ya know…..

    USMC 0231 TS/Codeword clearance/access
    USA 35D (retired) TS/Codeword clearance/access

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  • JethroUSMC
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:23am

    I wanted to add that I prefer Ghostery to Do not track plus for shutting off all of the cookies.

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  • Annie Fields
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:25am

    Uh… The Ford Foundation is financing this “privacy” thing? They are a known CIA front – the very same one Tim Geithner‘s father Peter worked for in Indonesia in the late ’60‘s early ’70′s when he met one S. Anne Dunham, a.k.a. Obama’s mother.

    Not sure we’re all set here, gang…

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:33am

    I want… a Windows verson!

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  • Whirling Dervish
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:07am

    Seems like The Blaze, has no problem tracking you themselves.

    This is the list of who is tracking you right now on The Blaze:
    1 Doubleclick
    2 Omniture
    3 Quantcast
    4 Google Analytics
    5 Netratings Site Census
    6 Media6 Degrees
    7 Google Adwords Conversion
    8 RadiumOne
    9 Zedo
    10 Revenue
    11 Comscore Beacon
    12 New Relic
    13 ChartBeat
    14 Dedicated Networks
    15 Quantcast
    16 Nielsen
    17 Media6degrees
    18 RadiumOne
    19 Zedo (Undertone Networks)
    20 AudienceScience

    Who in the world are these companies?

    Pot calling the kettle black, won’t you say???

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:18am

      Wow.

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:01am

      @WHIRLING…amazing how theblaze comes out with this story AFTER your post stating exactly who is tracking you on THIS site. what a bunch of ‘tards.

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    • Predator352
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:03am

      It’s not terribly hard to stop all that. Most of the time all the pop-ups that you get are simply scripts put into a website. Very simple to stop if you use mozilla. Look up script-blocker; however, know that it will make your browsing more labor intensive as it will stop all pages from initially loading, meaning you will have blank screens on most all places until you begin to allow access. Still, there are options for those who are willing to get a little dirty and learn a bit more about what’s going on when they are going online.

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    • Predator352
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:07am

      My mistake look up “No Script” and “Adblock” Sorry about that mix up, it’s 1am here O.o

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    • spikebu
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:57am

      Right now, I’ve got 19 (all blocked). The most I’ve had is 24 on this site. There’s a lot on Drudge, too. Really get whammied when surfing. Ghostery seems to be doing a right good job. I no longer get ads on the side that make me say, “Wow! I was just looking at those!”

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    • LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:09am

      Track me all you want, you commie bastardites…..come for me….come on…..COME FOR ME! hA!

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    • TyrannyNoMore
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:55am

      I am using Ghostery and have 25 on my list, just on this page alone !! All are now blocked , of course !

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    • cct
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:14am

      Yes… the Blaze seems to be one of the WORST offenders! Can’t wait until they add the option to turn the cookies off

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:38am

      jeesh! how we hate that zedo pop-up!!

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    • tjgje
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:41am

      When I left click on my back button it shows my previous pages, but when I am on the blaze, there are a bunch of “http://sana.newsinc.com/…” inserted. What is that???? I googled it buy very little came up.

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    • tjgje
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:44am

      sorry, i meant right click. If I left click on the back button, I don’t go back to the previous page, I just stay on this one.

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    • eagledown
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Ya, way cool, thanks. Just installed. Shows it blocked 32 for me. I get a special tingle up my leg when I see a Google one blocked. — my two Droid Phones are next…

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:42am

    Been using Do Not Track Plus for the last month. It does show me who is tracking and it says it is blocking the tracks, but I can‘t prove it is doing what it says it’s doing.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:03am

      Step 1 – Here is the Link to Download Firefox as your Browser – its free
      http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/

      Step 2 – Download the Firefox Plugin – “Do Not Track Plus” – its free

      From this point forward, use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer – unless you like others tracking you.

      You will be able to see how many sites you are now blocking. Great tool – take advantage.

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    • Whirling Dervish
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:17am

      @ db321

      And uninstall Chrome & Explorer, they are a spy haven.

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    • TyrannyNoMore
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:00am

      DB321 —–I too use FireFox. It is an excellent browser and faster than Explorer, in my opinion. I just started using Ghostery to block the tracking. It is one of the most downloaded add-ons at Mozilla. I am shocked at how much info is being collected on us 24/7.

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  • LTinUT
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:01am

    *rolling eyes* Good grief. The ONLY way any of these sites know anything personal about you is if you create an account and log in. Not unlike The Blaze that also tracks information so they can see how many people are reading which articles. Businesses could care less what your name is and they don’t collect ANY private information unless you give it to them first. Websites simply want to know how many visitors they have and which web pages are being viewed. Sites that sell stuff want to know how much money they are making and if their advertisements are working or not. All in all its merely a measure of how well the business is doing. Nothing more than capitalism at work. If it was REALLY an invasion of privacy and some conspiracy to put your life under a microscope, would The Blaze use the very same technology? I think not. Relax people… take off your tin foil hats.

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:09am

      Who is tracking you…. you mean beside the 23 tracking cookies on TheBlaze right now?

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    • db321
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:41am

      I counted 27 – I have been using Firefox for two years – on a tip from a Blaze poster FREEDOM10 today – I installed the plug in “Do Not Track Plus – WOW!

      Everyone you have two choices – use Firefox as your browser and installed the plug in or stop coming to this site. Big Brother is watching! Not me any longer!

      Thanks BLAZE for Posting this up

      Hopefully GBTV will do a story on Firefox – They are innovators and so far we can trust them – more so that Bill Gates crew.

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    • Big_EZ
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:08am

      For the most part, you are right. Businesses don’t care about personal information or identification of ourselves, only trends related to age, etc. (yay! for true capitalism)… the thing to be considered about is Google’s willingness to share information, unrestricted, with the White House a year so ago or so, and now with a unified privacy policy, that means ANYthing they can gather on you is fair game. For example you have a new smartphone that has an android OS, then chances are you have to create a G-Mail (Google) email account to go with it…and with the policy, everything voice, text, or data, is up as fair game with that policy. Hope you aren‘t on Obama’s enemies list (and the sad part is that it really exists, and given my respect for the office, I really wish that it wasn’t a confirmed truth). … the truth has no agenda… find it, and it will set you free (oh, and make you miserable in the short term)…

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    • chexfive
      Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:55am

      Well,, there are better more respectable ways to track all these things besides doing it behind people’s backs. For instance they can get most of the demographic information from a sales form when they make the sale.
      The problem is people don’t want to voluntarily give up all their details, so they won’t fill in a long form, so they have to do it behind your back. Again, you want to know which ad campaign is working best, then ask when they checkout.
      Want to know if your sales are up or down, look at your bank account, that is a good start. There simply isn’t a good reason why any company should leave anything on my computer without my permission first.
      The problem is… now if a business generates a few dollars your entitled to treat people like c rap or do as you please, it is all about the businesses not about the people, and that is one reason the country is in the toilet now, everybody is willing to look the other way for a few dollars right? Business first, people second right?
      One more thing, if I need something I am more than capable to be able to find it whether I need it here or online, I’ve never bought anything from a web ad…..ever! Web ads are for suckers!

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  • Tandem2011
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:53am

    Makes one long for the days before the internet…when people met in real time and spent more quality time with friends and family instead of getting joined at the hip by a computer and keyboard, letting spies track us at all hours. People will say and do things online that they’re too inhibited to do offline. The internet is like a car. We can get to lots of places but we can also get left by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:45am

    Today, I replied to an email from my sister about her cataract surgery. Later, when I again opened my email, there was all kinds of junk mail about cataracts. I don’t want to sound paranoid, but I think someone is watching me. Yikes!

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  • badgesjacksonSOUNDEDcool
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:44am

    I like the music in that video…and yeah, I’m trying to get collusion to work.

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  • USAMEDIC3008
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:38am

    They just want to see our
    public hair…

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:22am

    the government knows everything we do on the internet and goggle is letting them have the information,there is no such thing as privacy on the internet,the only place that you can have any privacy anymore is the bathroom in your on home and i am not real sure about that,because we already know that there are vans driving around the country with the technology to see and hear inside your home,your computer is being monitored at all times on or off and your cell phone has a tracking signal in it,so again i am not sure if the government does not know if you wiped your butt good enough and if you flushed one to many times or put the seat down, i don’t care if the government knows i am a conservative,and that is don’t like the communist that are running our country, if they want to come and see me,then i will be able to tell them to their faces that commies suck.

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    • MrMagoo
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:36am

      me too.And as a added bonus,my Fist will put not 1,but 2 black eyes for them to carry for a few days.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:40am

      You’re making me Paranoid………..lol

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    • JethroUSMC
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:21am

      And your purchasing habits have been able to be tracked for years if you used a credit card, and now debit/credit cards. All electronic records in a database. If data is stored in a database it can be parsed and hashed a mind numbing number of ways.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:16am

    TY Liz Klimas.Journalism.

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  • wakeus_com
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:10am

    Privacy is a thing of the past for 90% of the civilized world …

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  • louise
    Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:17am

    Unplug.

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