Safari 5 extension to avoid data mining
Oct 13, '10 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
Online privacy is always a matter of concern. There are many tools around to help and a new one for Safari 5 is an extension called Incognito.
Download and double click the extension file to install it into Safari 5. It allows you to block:
- Google Adsense
- Google Analytics
- Google API (may break some sites)
- Facebook content
- Embedded YouTube videos
This doesn't necessarily block all the ads themselves, but rather the meta-information that is used to track your preferences and target the ads.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and as far as I can tell it works as described. It may be an interesting exercise to run Little Snitch before and after enabling Incognito and see what actually is being blocked.]
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