While surfing a website, Liking, Tweeting, +1 their articles, you are actually sharing your data with Facebook, Twitter and Google+. These website not only use your personal information that they have collected for their own use (like showing Pages suggestions, location based tweets, etc.) but they and many other social networking websites share the collected users’ information with hundreds of brands to advertise market their product.
Moreover, lots of companies and websites track your online activities either to serve relevant content or promoting brands/services. Even you don’t need to login your social account to make your information transfer happens.
There are thousands of websites that we visit, all of them are not trusted ones. If you do very sensitive tasks online then you might be as concerned as me about stopping websites and social networks to track all of your activities online. So in this article, I am sharing some small but very effective tools that will ensure you to get well deserved privacy.
1. DoNotTrackMe
DoNotTrackMe is very powerful tool that blocks Facebook, Twitter, Spotify and many other websites & advertisers to track your footprints online. It is browser extension that is available for Chrome, FireFox, Internet Explorer and Safari for Mac and Windows users.
The extension stay unobtrusively in your browser, let you know how many third-party services are trying to track your activity and block them.
After the extension installs, it show small notification which you can expand to know which web services and websites were trying to capture you. DNT promises to block 600+ trackers. With each and every updates, more trackers details are being added to block them.
2. Ghostery
Available for Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer as well as iOS Devices, Ghostery is a small tool that lets you to block a bit additional information that you’re blocking till now. Ghostery is your window into the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior.
Ghostery tracks over 1,600 trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
3. Disconnect
Disconnect is another browser extension to block websites to track your online while offering some additional and great features. Available for Chrome, FireFox, Opera and Safari Web browser, it lets you visualize and block the invisible websites that track your search and browsing history.
Other benefits you will enjoy:
- Load the pages you go to 27% faster.
- 17% less bandwidth usage.
- Stop tracking by 2,000+ third-party sites.
- Encrypt the data you share with popular sites.
For Mobile Browsers
To block websites tracking your activities online, you can use Atomic Web Browser which strongly block social networks and advertisers to track your activities. However, it is available only for iPhone Users. Fortunately, Dolphin’s Free Mobile Browser, that is available for iOS and Android have private browsing option which can help you for this issue.
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