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

[shootingstar]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[PamNY]

I don't know if you can block Google scripts while using Chrome.

Google is so intensely curious about us all; wouldn't surprise me if they have something hard to defeat. That's one reason I was slightly leery of using Chrome (but I haven't researched it at all).

[Hi Ho Silver]

I started using Firefox when it first came out. It was a great improvement over Internet Explorer. However I am now a Chrome convert. It is much faster than Firefox, less of a memory hog, and provides built in pdf viewing (So you can avoid that intrusive bloatware known as Adobe Acrobat Reader).

If you choose to use Chrome as your browser, you can/should get a couple add-ons for privacy and safety:

NotScript - allows you to control (via a whitelist or blacklist) which sites can run scripts (It is Chrome's version of Firefox's NoScript)

Vanilla - allows you more control (via a whitelist) over which sites get to keep cookies on your computer