firefox addon collusion

[larry]

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

i've been reviewing the results of running this for a week or more and altho very interesting, i'm not sure what to think or do about it. just quickly, it shows you graphically where the websites you visit send data about you.

 

[whobee]

Did you try this after turning off third party cookie acceptance? Wondered if there would be any results to generate as third party seems to be the focus of the charting.

 

[larry]

No. i didn't try to change anything. i'm not sure if it matters. what i did check is that my "dirty" sites were not sharing the fact that i had visited. that part seems ok.

 

[whobee]

Turning off third party cookies seems to make a big difference. A lot of the more persistant trackers come from 3rd party sites. I imagine we're still tracked everywhere we go, if not by cookies then through our IPs but I still like to minimize it where I can.