A tracker blocking add on that shows you who is tracking you

**roadie gal** · 03-25-2011, 04:22 PM

I seem to be on a theme lately... I found a free add on that not only can block tracking sites, but can show you which company is tracking you on each web page you visit. It's called Ghostery, at www.ghostery.com. There's a little Pacman-like ghost at the top of your screen that shows you the number of tracking sites attempting to follow your surfing. You can click on that and it shows you which sites they are. (Google seems to be very interested in all that we do.) You can choose to block all, none or some of the sites. It works with Firefox, Chrome, IE and Safari.

I am not associated with the company, btw.

**PamNY** · 03-25-2011, 06:18 PM

Interesting; thanks. CNET gives Ghostery a good review.

**Bike Chick** · 03-26-2011, 04:58 AM

Thanks, Roadie.

**shootingstar** · 03-27-2011, 07:46 AM

So how does one boot off a virtual follower once discovered? Yea, got 1-2, I think it's a robot script or something. Doubtful it's a search engine, they don't work like that since search engines must operate differently in order to index new content frequently.

PM me if you know the technical details.

**PamNY** · 03-27-2011, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by shootingstar

So how does one boot off a virtual follower once discovered?

According to the CNET review, the Ghostery interface lets you block followers the program discovers.

**bmccasland** · 03-27-2011, 12:16 PM

Slight hi-jack. When I went to download I noticed I have two options.

Out of habit I've been using IE, but I just noticed that I also have Google Chrome on my new laptop. Any thoughts about which program I should stick with? Am not familiar at all with Google Chrome.

**PamNY** · 03-29-2011, 01:54 PM

Beth, I've used Chrome occasionally and it seems faster than Firefox.

I added Ghostery, and it surely is gratifying to see how much stuff it is blocking. Does it really matter in the great scheme of things? I don't know, but it's making me happy.

**OakLeaf** · 03-29-2011, 02:07 PM

Can you block Google's tracking scripts when you're using Chrome? They're some of the worst... (Or does Google have some non-Java non-Flash way to track Chrome usage, more likely?)

I've had no trouble with NoScript and don't see any reason to switch to Ghostery - but the more the merrier

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