21 Jun 2012
How To Know Which Websites Are Tracking You
“Safe”, this four letter word is very rare.Yea we are not safe whether we are in home or road or even in cyber world.Some people think that using a genuine OS and a updated good anti-virus keeps themselves safe.But i am not talking about that kind of safe ,can you recall the movie “Independent Day” ? In this movie we see how alien attack on earth but US soldier fight and defeat them.So we don’t want to live dependent.But are we really independent or safe ? Imagine you woke up early morning and see a news that Microsoft or Apple caught due to they were selling our personal info from our computer to CIA or some Govt.Yes and the info were just send to Apple or Microsoft via internet connection from our computer as they make their OS to do this.I know you will be shocked and me also.Hope its not true.
But its true that US Govt tracking us and they use Facebook and Google to track us.Few months ago Google was caught as they use some code to track normal people.After news in media Google stop their secrete code.But there is a probability that they are tracking you.So i am going to tell you how websites track you.
Whenever you visit some site let xyz.com then there are some other site like abc.com will know when you visit xyz.com.And abc.com is connected to xyz.com via some script or cookies.So abc.com is tracking you when you visit xyz.com.Thats how websites track you.
So how to know which website are tracking you when you visit some site ? Collusion for Chrome is the extension for Google Chrome browser that show graphically the tracking sites when soime visit.And also mark the sites that are tracking you when you visits that site.Its a bets tool that show how websites track you.
Here I visit famous tech site cnet and Collusion for Chrome show that many site are tracking me including Facebook and Google.Here the red circled site are know tracking site and the gray circled site are may tracking you.So we can see here how websites track you.
But its true that US Govt tracking us and they use Facebook and Google to track us.Few months ago Google was caught as they use some code to track normal people.After news in media Google stop their secrete code.But there is a probability that they are tracking you.So i am going to tell you how websites track you.
Whenever you visit some site let xyz.com then there are some other site like abc.com will know when you visit xyz.com.And abc.com is connected to xyz.com via some script or cookies.So abc.com is tracking you when you visit xyz.com.Thats how websites track you.
So how to know which website are tracking you when you visit some site ? Collusion for Chrome is the extension for Google Chrome browser that show graphically the tracking sites when soime visit.And also mark the sites that are tracking you when you visits that site.Its a bets tool that show how websites track you.
Here I visit famous tech site cnet and Collusion for Chrome show that many site are tracking me including Facebook and Google.Here the red circled site are know tracking site and the gray circled site are may tracking you.So we can see here how websites track you.
So how to stop ourselves by tracking from Google or other site? I have already post a article on this topic you can follow the method here
So whenever you visit some site don’t forget to check which websites are tracking you or you can can show your friend or family that how websites track you.
If you are a Firefox user then you can download Collusion from here
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