See Who's Tracking You On-Line?

[trt]

Just noticed this on Firefox, anybody used it?

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/?utm_source=snippet&utm_medium=snippet&utm_campaign=lightbeam2&sample_rate=0.1&;snippet_name=4139

[Buenchico]

224 (rather varied) reviews here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/reviews/

[Hypognosis]

Saw it when I fired up FF today.

Looked at the info page. Decided it might be resource hungry.

Didn't install it.

Daft thing is that, at first glance, it sounds like it's a thing to help you find out who is snooping on you. They would go out of their way not to allow themselves to be identified, of course.

We all know that advertisers track what websites we visit, all this thing will do is tell you the specifics. I don't see how extra CPU effort of documenting all of that will speed up my browsing experience at all. It can only slow it down.

New ways of slowing the internet back down to what it was like on dialup are being dreamed up as we speak.

[trt]

Thanks folks, wont bother.

[bibblebub]

If you want some control of what sites get up to then Firefox has several add-ons that enable you to do just that.

The main 3 I would suggest are NoScript, RequestPolicy and Self-destructing Cookies - the first two of those can require a lot of patience initially until you get the settings right for your regular sites to work as you expect.

Others are BetterPrivacy, Disconnect, DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery and the one that can't be named on AB but there may be some overkill having all these. However I reckon that it's better to be over-protected than open to undesired activity which is why I use all of them (and don't notice any slowdown as a result).