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 conceal...
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
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.
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- Developed byDaniel C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives15 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 284 Stars
- 55 Forks
- 69 Open Issues
- Updated
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Said about TrackMeNot as an alternative
Open-source add-on that works with @AdNauseam, as per AdNauseam help files.
Tags
- Ad Blocker
- Firefox Extension
- surveillance
- Firefox
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Web BrowsersList containing TrackMeNot
PrivacyRecent user activities on TrackMeNot
- lharoldsadded Block Ads as a feature to TrackMeNotlh
- lharoldsliked TrackMeNotlh
POXadded TrackMeNot as alternative(s) to YOU.com
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]