I always thought it annoying that Facebook tracks every website I visit that has a facebook "like" or share button on it, even if I never click those buttons, or would consider clicking them. Same for the Google +1 button.

Recently found the browser plug-in ghostery - it gives you fine grained control over what trackers and cookies are allowed to report back. It also shows all the trackers on the current site, and which ones have been blocked in a simple overlay.

I like it a lot, not just because of what it does, but also because of the way it does it - simple, unobtrusive, clear, and free to boot.

http://www.ghostery.com

I set this up with everything blocked. The only thing I've needed to unblock is Disqus forums - and each website I visit seems to contain between 4 and 10 different trackers, all of which I seem to be able to live without.

Hmmmm, what if I'm signed-out from facebook but have not cleared my cookies... could the facebook tracker still track me ?

9 trackers from TV

9 trackers from TV

Same result here

9 trackers from TV

Same result here

Nothing shocking about that. ThaiVisa is free for the users and paid for by the advertisers.

10 trackers from tv

Funny, I posted links to all these blocking software last week and it was deleted

I guess you can talk about it but not give links.

pssssst! tor browser! but don't tell anybody! &

https://startpage.com most private browser sssshhhhh na

Hmmmm, what if I'm signed-out from facebook but have not cleared my cookies... could the facebook tracker still track me ?

"Yes"

I book with Agoda and I noticed that every time I visited any website with agoda advertising the hotels I booked were on the front page, coincidence?

I don't think so.They track your IP.

Having Advanced System Care or Regcure Pro is no longer enough.

I used to use Ghostery but later switched to Do Not Track Plus from Abine which seemed less prone to conflict on my machine.

I would be interested to know if anybody else has tried both and has a view on which is better as it is a while since I used Ghostery.

Have a look at Collusion.

9 trackers from TV

since I met him for the first time around 2005 or so during the legendary first TV-Pissup at a Sukhumvit Club, I alway knew BIG GEORGE is watching me / us {~_~}

I had GHOSTERY on my netbook, but it slowed it down entirely to a point, where I couldn't use it anymore.

it as well is obviously VERY DIFFICULT to remove (must be done manually to be sure it is REALLY gone), the Computer-community-messageboards are full of warnings about that one....

there must be something "lighter" available nowadays, isn't it ?

Been running ghostery for years on a little eeepc without issues, no apparent slow-down. I suppose it varies according to the webpage being loaded.

As an aside - killing Flash is what really improved things. I only open those flash elements I really must see, and even then I only open them temporarily. Same for scripts - I block them all and selectively let the ones in that are essential. Cookies - I allow most because of going back to same pages a lot would otherwise be a pita...

A posting about ad blocking software has been removed. See forum rule #11. There is a good reason for this: ThaiVisa is free for the users, but there are of course cost. These are covered by the advertisers.

I had GHOSTERY on my netbook, but it slowed it down entirely to a point, where I couldn't use it anymore.

it as well is obviously VERY DIFFICULT to remove (must be done manually to be sure it is REALLY gone), the Computer-community-messageboards are full of warnings about that one....

there must be something "lighter" available nowadays, isn't it ?

I just uninstalled it with one click from Chrome.

totster

I had GHOSTERY on my netbook, but it slowed it down entirely to a point, where I couldn't use it anymore.

it as well is obviously VERY DIFFICULT to remove (must be done manually to be sure it is REALLY gone), the Computer-community-messageboards are full of warnings about that one....

there must be something "lighter" available nowadays, isn't it ?

I just uninstalled it with one click from Chrome.

totster

Same on Firefox. It would appear, from Google , that uninstalling completely from IE9 is not so easy and requires some manual clean up. I may be wrong on this as do not use IE.

I had GHOSTERY on my netbook, but it slowed it down entirely to a point, where I couldn't use it anymore.

it as well is obviously VERY DIFFICULT to remove (must be done manually to be sure it is REALLY gone), the Computer-community-messageboards are full of warnings about that one....

there must be something "lighter" available nowadays, isn't it ?

I just uninstalled it with one click from Chrome.

totster

Same on Firefox. It would appear, from Google , that uninstalling completely from IE9 is not so easy and requires some manual clean up. I may be wrong on this as do not use IE.

Anyone still using IE deserve the problems they get..

totster

IE 10 is actually very good - a vast improvement on previous releases.