Privacy stealing Bitches

[Twitchin Kitten]

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You know, I should stick this thread even though no one has had an opinion on this subject. I feel the info is important enough to have handy as a reference. I know it is for me and it took me half an hour to find the thread today. I thought it was titled something different.

I got my Roboform beta test application today and it's for Safari browser only (for now) and in using Safari, I have a plugin called Ghostery installed. Ghostery is available for FF browsers OLDER than version 3.0. I don't know why they don't update it for the latest versions but from poking around, it's not been updated much for Safari either.

What is Ghostery? Ghostery is a plugin that blocks all kinds of things you don't want on your browsing experience and it also blocks those little privacy invading bugs that I mentioned above. I found there are over 200+ little invaders of privacy floating around the internet. Maybe if you browse plugins and add ons for Firefox and IE you may find something similar. I'm going to browse the FF page for something for when I go back to using it.

Anyway, with the need to use Safari to test my Roboform, this Ghostery keeps showing all kinds of things and I figured since I am using Safari, I might as well configure this thing.

I allowed the Alexa, Sitemeter, Google and Yahoo stuff. I can block the google ads but I want them for now to check my ads.

Some of these things are really scary! Check this one out called SpyLog http://www.ghostery.com/apps/spylog

Here is the list of things I had to choose from to block:

3DStats
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Acerno
Act-On Beacon
AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks
AdBrite
AddFreeStats
AddThis
AddtoAny
Adify
Adknowledge
AdMeld
AdNexus
AdRiver
AdScale
AdSide
Adtegrity
AdTiger
AdultAdWorld
Advertising.com
Alexa Metrics
Alexa Traffic Rank
Alexa Widget
AlmondNet
Amazon Associates
Apture
AWStats
BackType Widgets
Baynote Observer
Begun
BidVertiser
BinLayer
Bizo
Blogads
BlogCatalog
BlogCounter
BlogHer Ads
BlogRollr
BlueKai
Bluelithium
Bluemetrix
BLVD Status
BTBuckets
Burst Media
BuySellAds
Bzzster
Casale Media
Channel Intelligence
ChannelAdvisor
ChartBeat
CheckM8
Chitika
ClearSaleing
ClearSpring
Clickability Beacon
ClickFuel
Clicksor
ClickTale
Clicky
ClixMetrix
Clixpy
ClustrMaps
Collarity
Collective Media
CompeteXL
Comscore Beacon
ConversionRuler
Coremetrics
CPX Interactive
Crazy Egg
Criteo
Crowd Science
Cubics
DC StormIQ
Demandbase
Digg Widget
DiggThis
Disqus
DomoDomain
Dotomi
Doubleclick
DoubleClick Spotlight
DoublePimp
DoubleVerify
Dynamic Logic
eBay Stats
Eloqua
Engagd
Enquisite
eProof
etracker
eXelate
eXTReMe Tracker
Facebook Beacon
Facebook Connect
Fathom SEO
Federated Media
FeedBurner
Feedjit
Fetchback
ForeSee
Fox Audience Network
FriendFeed
FunctionalTrends
Genius
GetSatisfaction
Glam Media
GoDaddy Site Analytics
Gomez
Google Adsense
Google AdWords Conversion
Google AJAX Search API
Google Analytics
Google Custom Search Engine
Google FriendConnect
Google Website Optimizer
Google Widgets
GoSquared LiveStats
gumgum
Gunggo
Histats
HitsLink
HitTail
HubSpot
HubSpot WebsiteGrader
i-stats
IndexTools
InfoLinks
INFOnline
InsightExpress
IntelligenceFocus
Intense Debate
interCLICK
iPerceptions
JS-Kit
Kampyle
Kanoodle
KissMetrics
Kontera ContentLink
LeadBack
LeadForce1
LeadLander
Lijit
LiveBall
LiveInternet
LivePerson
Logdy
Lookery
Loomia
Lotame
Lynchpin Analytics
Lyris ClickTracks
Magnify360
Marin Search Marketer
Marketo
MashLogic
Media6 Degrees
mediaFORGE
Meebo Bar
Mercent
Microsoft Analytics
Microsoft Atlas
Mindset Media
Mint
Mirando
MixPanel
MSN Ads
MyBlogLog
Navegg
NebuAd
NedStat
NetMonitor
NetRatings SiteCensus
NextAction
Nooked
Nuconomy
Nugg.Ad
Omniture
Omniture TouchClarity
OneStat
OpenAds
OrangeSoda
Others Online
Outbrain
Pardot
Peer39
PercentMobile
phpMyVisites
Piwik Analytics
PointRoll
PostRank
Quantcast
Quigo AdSonar
Quintelligence
RapLeaf
Real Media
Reinvigorate
Resonance
ReTargeter Beacon
Revenue Science
RichRelevance
RightMedia
Rocket Fuel
Rubicon
Salesforce
ScribeFire QuickAds
SearchForce
Seesmic
SexInYourCity
ShareThis
ShinyStat
Silverpop
SiteMeter
Six Apart Advertising
Skribit
Snap
Snoobi
SpecificClick
Sphere
Spot200
SpyLog
Statcounter
Statisfy
Statsit
Summit Media
Sweepery
Tacoda
Technorati Widget
Tell-a-Friend
Thummit
TouchCommerce
Traffic Marketplace
Trafic
Tribal Fusion
TriggIt
Trovus Revelations
Tumblr
Turn
Tweetboard
TweetMeme
Twitter Badge
TwitterCounter
Tynt Tracer
Typepad Stats
Unica
UserVoice
ValueClick Mediaplex
Vibrant Ads
VisiStat
vistrac
Visual Website Optimizer
VisualDNA
ViziSense
W3Counter
Webtrekk
WebTrends
WebVisor
Whos.amung.us
Wibiya Toolbar
WidgetBox
WidgetBucks
Woopra
Wordpress Stats
WordStream
XiTi
Yahoo Analytics
Yahoo Buzz
Yahoo Overture
Yandex.Metrics
YieldBuild
Zango
Zedo
Zemanta
Zendesk