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Comment on Collusion by Do not track vs. don’t track « mathbabe

Do not track vs. don’t track « mathbabe — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:53:01 +0000

[...] But don’t believe me, visualize your own cookies as you travel the web. The guy (Atul Varma) who wrote this also open-sourced the code, which is cool. See also the interesting conversation in comments on his blog Toolness. [...]

Comment on Collusion by Collusion for Firefox: Who’s tracking you? | Digital Transparency

Collusion for Firefox: Who’s tracking you? | Digital Transparency — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:26:53 +0000

[...] cookies you pick up as your travel around online. Initially developed by an engineer at Mozilla, Atul Varma it’s now being taken further by the company, with the not insignificant support of the Ford [...]

Comment on Collusion by Some1

Some1 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:39:58 +0000

Umm.. it seems that this plugin is actually saving my cookies when I explicitly remove all of them (clear @ end of session). If I clear all cookies, then look @ collusion’s graph, everything that was tracking me prior to the clear all is back in my list of cookies.

I uninstalled collusion and cleared all and it now stays that way between start/quit of firefox sessions..

Comment on Collusion by Dominic White

Dominic White — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:42:05 +0000

Tracking the Trackers (my mods to the Collusion AddOn)…

In July last year, Toolness, released a cool Firefox add-on, named Collusion, that draws a pretty visualisation of who’s tracking you as you visit different sites. It gained some popularity after Gary Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, showed it off in his TED talk…

Comment on Collusion by Mozilla’s Collusion plug-in aims to expose online tracking

Mozilla’s Collusion plug-in aims to expose online tracking — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:01:12 +0000

[...] to explicitly identify sites that engage in behavioral tracking — Collusion’s developer admits to “sort of using without their permission.” Collusion is also providing access to [...]

Comment on Collusion by Firefox Add-On Collusion Shows Who’s Tracking You Online « « Fix-Singh - Gadget RepairsFix-Singh – Gadget Repairs

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:04:33 +0000

[...] behavioral tracking advertisers. Collusion was originally developed as an independent project by Mozilla engineer Atul Varma. Mozilla is now developing the add-on with the support of the Ford [...]

Comment on Collusion by xenomancer

xenomancer — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:31:24 +0000

This is an awesome add-on! I’ve known about such tracking for a while, but the visualization makes it really stand out. Have you given any thought to making a similar add-on for chrome? It would be very much appreciated if you were to do so. I haven’t been able to find any similar projects in the “chrome web store” that can compete with what I’ve seen you do for firefox. Thanks again!

Comment on Kids And The Open Web by Michelle + I explain web making « commonspace

Michelle + I explain web making « commonspace — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:27:48 +0000

[...] Kids and the open web. (Atul) [...]

Comment on Collusion by Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Watchdog: Visualize your password reuse

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Watchdog: Visualize your password reuse — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:24:26 +0000

[...] This way, you can quickly see which passwords you’re overusing and need to change. Hat-tip to Collusion, another interesting Firefox add-on with roots in Mozilla Labs, for inspiring some of my thinking [...]

Comment on The Role of Performance in Online Life by Mark Surman

Mark Surman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:32:58 +0000

Totally, places like Twitter and online forums aren’t meant to feel like home. Or, if they are, they do a bad job .

But these places are good for more than just rational discourse and lazywebness — they are also good for *getting work done* in the open. Doing work in the open definitely means that you have to be thoughtful in what you post, but it also dramatically increases the likelihood that new people will become aware of or involved in your work. For organizations like Mozilla, this is important.

It’s worth going one level deeper to say: communication needs to be granular and authentic to draw people into to open, collaborative projects. If people see banter going on, or discussion of genuinely hard technical, design and social problems, they see perceive something real they can jump into. Creating this kind of communication environment sometimes means performing, or, better yet, getting beyond the feeling that what’s in public is performance. Rather, it’s just what operating in the open feels like.