Collusion

[n2nsanity]

Checked out this new firefox add-on called "collusion". It's purpose is to keep track of how many sites are potentially tracking you. Open up this site and you get 2 additional sites running in the background (facebook and doubleclick.net). Yahoo - 6, cnn - 4, google - 0.

Pulled up 3si and I had to count a few times to get it right - 27, lol. I'm tempted to try some porn sites (I bet even they will have less than 27), but I should probably wait until I get home :p

The higher the number, the more likely one or more of these other sites are tracking and selling your internet use and also the greater potential for malware.

[GTOJOE]

Interesting adon. Have you tried this while also running adblockplus? With adblock plus I only get one site from this one [facebook] and one from 3si [exelator]. This does change though depending on what's going on on the screen. If the page has an embeded youtube video then it also links youtube. Just opened a page with photos hosted from photobucket and now it's following. I suspect without adblockplus it will show up every site linked to the ads etc.

[IPD]

potentially tracking you != are tracking you. i guarantee google is tracking you, even though you're getting a 0 pings from it.

[n2nsanity]

Maybe the ones that can hide themselves are the ones we really have to worry about, lol