David Cancel’s Web Beacon Finder
Published on Tuesday, July 1 2008
(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.
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
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.
