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July 1, 2008
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David Cancel’s Web Beacon Finder

Tagged with: , , , , , , , — John @ 1:21 pm

(Via David’s blog)
David Cancel’s written a Greasemonkey script which alerts you to the various web beacons / tracking bugs used on the websites you visit.

Tracking Web Bugs

David’s updated the script recently, including the following changes:

  • Favicons are now stored locally to increase performance.
  • Updated definition for Lookery
  • Updated definition for Google Analytics
  • Added definition for Piwik Analytics
  • Added definition for Mint
  • Added definition for Facebook Beacon
  • Added definition for TypePad Stats
  • Added definition for Wordpress Stats

Go here to get it.

Not sure I can surf with this enabled all the time, given the number of sites using these various services - but it is certainly interesting to try it out for a while and see how common they are.

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