If you have recently visited any of EU-based websites (especially, the ones from the UK or the Netherlands), you have probably noticed annoying notifications on their homepages, asking whether you want to accept cookies or not.
Few weeks back Mozilla has launched an experimental Firefox add-on called Collusion that can show you who is tracking you in real-time. The extension graphs the tracking cookies your browser acquires and able to differentiate between behavioral tracking, such as cookies that record the links you click, and other cookies. ‘Collusion for Chrome’ is similar extension for Chrome and like Firefox’s Collusion, this extension helps you understand and control your online data.
Do Not Track, the advert blocking technology that comes pre-built into Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari has now available for Google Chrome as an add-on. Do Not Track (DNT) is a technology and policy proposal that lets you tell websites that you don’t want your internet activities tracked by advertising system (including analytics services, advert networks, and social platforms).
Evercookie is a latest web danger and the usual tools for removing cookies (flash cookies and normal cookies) won’t work on it, because Evercookie stores cookie data in multiple ways, so tracking information can’t be easily deleted. If you are worried more about your privacy, you should think twice of them.
As told in my earlier posts there are two types of tracking cookies – normal cookies and flash cookies. Web sites stores cookies on your computer usually for collecting information about your surfing habits.
For privacy reasons you can remove cookies from your computer. There is an option in your browser for that, but unfortunately you can not delete Flash cookies by this way, it still offers unlimited tracking.