Farstrider Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I was not really sure where I should put this so if a mod thinks this does not belong here, please move it to the appropriate place, thanks. The other day when I was browsing through a thread on Neowin, (The one where people whinge about the site being slow) one of the posters suggested that people use Collusion to prevent sites tracking your browsing habits and this is what I found and for me, it is rather an eye opener! neowin.net When you visit this site (neowin.net) these are the sites that are informed! gstatic.com google.com cloudfront.net google-analytics.com facebook.net twitter.com youtube.com com.com gravatar.com ajax.googleapis.com buysellads.com netshelter.net vladstudio.com imgur.com chzbgr.com ompldr.org reddit.com imageshack.us intellitxt.com imgf.tw academic.ru images-amazon.com softpedia-static.com mercador.ro gdgt.com mobilephonehistory.co.uk mobilegazette.com nokiamuseum.info wikimedia.org compu-seite.de bp.blogspot.com arqhys.com saidaonline.com amazonaws.com productwiki.com ggpht.com mytrendyphone.co.uk photobucket.com tqn.com twimg.com sodahead.com haggistech.co.uk extragsm.com hypertext.net Some of them anyway, more than what I have in my list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted December 5, 2012 Member Share Posted December 5, 2012 That's quite a list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Xinok Subscriber² Posted December 5, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted December 5, 2012 It's unavoidable. The majority of those sources are likely embedded images hosted on 3rd party servers. A simple add-on like Ghostery and something to block referrers will do much to boost your privacy online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalty Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Ghostery for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witalit Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Ghostery for the win. Yeah this looks like a very handy addon, thanks for the tip! Installed on both Home & Work PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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