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Comment by overdoneone on October 24, 2012 at 1:26am

What I have amounts to a small icon to the upper right hand corner of my screen. Two icons actually, a red circle with the number of blocked sites over top of another that I cannot see. When I click the red icon I get a drop down screen that lists the types of networks or companies and the corresponding number of snoops on each one. Right now the list claims that three out of the four social networks and four out of the four companies trackers have been blocked. So far I have not been able to confirm the URLs/address/names of any of the blocked parties. Maybe I will check into this possibility and see what turns up. Could be a scam. I'll let you know. 

Comment by mystery on October 23, 2012 at 7:46pm

I have a question for you overdoneone. When you have a gray screen do you have little gray squares with dotted lines around it? The reason I asked is because all of mine usually just say the name of the site that I visited but the other night i was talking to James and went to his page. Now it shows his page completely in one of my squares. It is the only one that has done that so far. Have you had this happen to you, or is it just mine? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have on this. It puzzles me.

Comment by overdoneone on October 23, 2012 at 12:26pm

I found this app among the many choices for my firefox browser. It would appear that yours and mine seem to be blocking the same number of snoops. I guess time will tell on the efficiency of these things. It never hurts to try and protect oneself.

Comment by mystery on October 23, 2012 at 7:46am

Did you find this do not track on abine.com? I show two ad companies and two social networks and 4 companies. Just how effective it is I don't really know. I have not had mine very long and have only blocked a little over 5000. I have noticed either some places are not tracked or it just won't work there. I don't know which one it is.

Comment by overdoneone on October 23, 2012 at 12:30am

Very interesting article and something to be concerned about. Recently I installed an add on called DNT or Do Not Track. The claim is that every web page has a compliment of websites that track and record by ISP , every  individual viewing the page. For instance this page has 4 social networks and 4 companies monitoring me, all of them blocked, they claim. So far, over 35,000 companies have been blocked since I first installed the program.  Anybody here have a program such as this or have any information as to how effective DNT may be?