TrackMeNot
TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy:...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork.
Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Obfuscation
Tags
- surveillance
- Firefox
- Firefox Extension
TrackMeNot News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- K0RR updated TrackMeNot
POX added TrackMeNot as alternative to Murena Find- SuperCoolDude liked TrackMeNot
Danilo_Venom added TrackMeNot as alternative to Peekr
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TrackMeNot information
Developed by
Daniel C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is TrackMeNot?
TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
Comments and Reviews
TrackMeNot "hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles."
So, instead of trying to block ads and risk creating a unique blocking profile that can be fingerprinted by surveillance software, TMN hides your searches among randomly generated searches of its own.
Also works with @AdNauseam, which hides user profiles on actual, real-user searches by clicking all or most ads on a page, according to the FAQ on Github.
Using this combo seems to be faster than ublock origin - or at least feels that way.
[Edited by jasonbrown1965, October 16]