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4bucksagallon

(975 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 07:05 PM Oct 2013

Who's watching you? Track the trackers with new Web tool.......

For the truly paranoid crowd or the just curious crowd.

"Between the NSA, Google, Facebook, and a few hundred advertisers, it's hard to know just who's tracking you, and where. Mozilla, the team behind the Firefox browser, just released a plug-in that lets you visualize the many trackers and cookies that dog your every step online — and it's pretty crazy.

Lightbeam, an extension for Firefox, keeps a record of all the sites that you visit, but also all the sites those sites call out to — from comment systems to video hosting services to dozens of advertisers and analytics services."

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/whos-watching-you-track-trackers-new-web-tool-8C11467523

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