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When I'm browsing the web, I'd like to not be tracked by any third party services like Facebook or Google. For instance, if I visit somepage.com I don't want my browser requesting things from facebook.com unless I allow it. However, if I visit facebook.com, Facebook still works.
Does anyone know of a Chrome or Firefox extension that will allow me to do this?
AdBlock in Chrome doesn't seem to work because it just hides the web page elements, it doesn't stop the browser from downloading them. I imagine that some kind of proxy/browser extension hybrid would be the best.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
1Thanks for your response. I would allow requests to staticpaypal.com when I'm visiting paypal.com. I realize it would be somewhat painful to have to do this the first time I visit a page, but I wouldn't mind. – Wayne Bloss – 2010-05-28T17:09:06.180
That was just an example which I thought off the top of my head. It's annoying when I have to do it with Noscript, and I assume that there isn't an extension which can block all third party content like noscript. So you would probably need to edit some config file by hand.
Really your best bet is to just get noscript and adblock, disable third party cookies, and dump cookies/cache at the end of the browser session. Beyond that it's a REAL hassle. If you need more privacy I would recommend using a proxy service. – Daisetsu – 2010-05-28T17:17:50.933
2As far as manually allowing requests to 3rd party sites, it seems this would get tedious each time you have to load a website and determine what 3rd party sites to allow or not allow. – mindless.panda – 2010-05-28T18:07:15.183