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

[OakLeaf]

I'd also highly recommend an app like Flush to delete your Flash cookies, aka LSOs (or find out where they are on your hard drive and delete them separately). They're stored separately from browser cookies.

I just deleted one from akamai, which is blacklisted as black as can be on my computer. I don't know how they were able to set that (definitely some more investigation in my future...), but if I hadn't gone specifically to delete it, I'd never have known it was there.


I like NoScript and Firefox because they allow you to authorize a site to set session cookies, and allow scripts on an ad hoc basis, rather than relying solely on a blanket whitelist or blacklist the way some browsers and extensions do. F'rinstance, it's getting more and more common for retail sites to require Google Analytics . If I really want to buy something from one of those sites, I can quit my browser to delete my browsing and download history (or do that manually if you haven't got your browser set to delete all that), login to the site I'm interested in and temporarily allow Google Analytics (or whatever other spyware they require), then revoke temporary permissions and start a new browser session, all from the main window.