Open Parenthesis » Google Analytics http://www.openparenthesis.org Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:13:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 David Cancel’s Web Beacon Finder http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/01/david-cancels-web-beacon-finder http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/01/david-cancels-web-beacon-finder#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:21:09 +0000 John http://www.openparenthesis.org/?p=576 (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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