Ever heard of being anonymously viewed by some trackers online without your consent? Irritating, isn’t it? When you are being spied on and you don’t have control to refrain it from happening. Well the folks at Evidon Inc. have a solution in hands to prevent this and giving you the power of controlling who will track your log files. Ghostery® is add-on which enables you to see who is tracking your IP address when you visit a site and hands to you the power of blocking it.
How it works?
It kinda makes you like a web detective and helps you access the invisible cookies,tags,trackers,ad-networks,behavioral data providers,web publishers and other companies interested in your activity.They give you access to what information is being shared by to the trackers and helps you avoid it from being distributed and yes you can block them forever from accessing your information for their use.It also speed up your browser by blocking the trackers for a great user experience .No Spyware, No Malware, No Adware is their promise to us ever. As per Ghostery® they block 100 million trackers everyday,isn’t it cool?
What else it does?
They have Hack the Trackers Hackathon where whoever has an eye for privacy is invited to participate and build something.One of them best products of the outcome is Totoknows which tries to pulls back the curtain to show you who they are, and helps you find out everything there is to know about them, too, like where they live and how they vote.They have in tracker of Amazon,NSA,National Intelligence and they hacked it for protecting privacy
Who made it?
Felix Shnir and José María Signanini made this project come true. Felix is an IT professional based in NYC and Jose is a Software developer based in NYC and now are part of Evidon Inc. after Ghostery was bought by them.