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[roseway]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed a browser addon (for Firefox and Chrome) which attempts to stop advertisers and other commercial interests tracking your internet activity. It's currently in an early development phase, but already has some useful capability. I'm testing it now.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

and an article about it on ars technica:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/eff-privacy-badger-plugin-aimed-at-forcing-websites-to-stop-tracking-users/

[kitz]

Interesting

When you visit websites, your copy of Privacy Badger keeps note of the "third-party" domains that embed images, scripts and advertising in the pages you visit.

I wonder if that will impact on google ads?

[roseway]

By default it doesn't blacklist them, but merely notes their presence.

[burakkucat]

Do you have any idea of what benefit this new plugin will provide over Ghostery, for example?

[roseway]

I don't know anything which isn't in those two links. I have Ghostery installed, and I intend to try to compare their results when I have some time.

[UncleUB]

Do you have any idea of what benefit this new plugin will provide over Ghostery, for example?

Talking of Ghostery

http://www.areweprivateyet.com/