New Mozilla Browser Add-On Visualizes Who Is Tracking You Online

Recently, you might have come across news that speaks about cyber crime or cyber security. You feel as if you are being followed somewhere throughout the digital network. However, one can believe that modern tracking companies indulge in gathering users’ information just for business purpose.



Mozilla CEO, Gary Kovacs recently unveiled a Firefox compatible add-on codenamed Collusion, at the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference (TED). The add-on is a simple visualization tool that portrays the number of different web sites that are tracking your browsing data as and when you surf the web.

The tool is similar to that of a color-coded decomposition of an alien DNA. It essentially comprises of dots drawn as a matrix composed of gray elements to figure out the sites you have visited or currently visiting and connected red dots for the sites that have passed cookies through your browser to monitor your web surf.

Kovacs has plans for launching the Collusion tool on a grand scale permitting users to share their tracking data to a company that essentially analyses these data. The motive of the proposed system is that if we become conscious about who’s tracking us, necessary steps can be adopted to get around it. It’s quite important as Kovacs once said, ‘We are being chased and now it’s our turn to chase.’

We recommend you to download a copy for yourself from Mozilla’s Add-on Site.