Facebook Blocker which I reviewed yesterday made sure that some Facebook scripts cannot be executed on third party websites. That’s helpful among other things to disable tracking by the popular social networking site. The problem with the extension? It only covers Facebook when there are hundreds of other companies and services that do the same. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Companies have three options to track desktop users on the Internet, cookies, Flash cookies and network related activities. All three can be used by third parties to track an Internet user’s movement on the Internet, to record interests and activities. Most tracking companies sell those information to advertisers who in return display relevant advertisement to [...]

Categories: The Web

Computer users may run into the term tracking cookie frequently if they are using a security software like Norton 360 or Kaspersky Internet Security. These programs detect those web browser cookies, and offer to delete them from the system. The detection of third party cookies by security software does not mean that they pose the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

If you are a very observant – or cautious – PayPal user you might have noticed that several connection requests are made that are to other domains that are not paypal.com when you visit the website of the online payment processor. This can be extremely worrying to users considering that malicious software and attackers also [...]

Categories: Security

Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google, ie, Security

We have covered Phorm before at Ghacks. It is a very scary cooperation between several Internet Service Providers and advertising companies. The Internet Service Providers install tracking cookies on user systems and create a unique profile for each user which is then used by the advertising agencies to display targeted advertisement to the user. Especially [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security

Cookies, or more precisely HTTP cookies, are small text files that are stored on a users computer when he visits a website that is making use of them. They can store session information, shopping cart contents, website preferences, can be used for authentication and for tracking the user. The first applications are beneficial and most [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera