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Disables Third-Party Tracking While Keeping Webapps Operational-Disconnect

December 14, 2010 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Disconnect for Chrome Disables Third-Party Tracking While Keeping Webapps OperationalChrome/Rockmelt: It always seems like a simple, if brutal, call: either keep your cookies, or lose access to a working Gmail, Facebook, and other neat services. Enter Disconnect, an extension that de-personalizes your browsing without cutting off necessary functionality.

Install Disconnect in Chrome or Rockmelt, and you’ll notice it starts building up a tally in its taskbar icon. Click the button, and you can see how many requests—where you came from, where you’re going, what you searched for before, whether your Facebook friends like this page, etc.—Disconnect has blocked from Google, Twitter, Facebook, and other services. Webapps can still do their basic magic, but they lose sight of you as a person whose decisions they can easily track.

Disconnect is a free download for Chrome and the Rockmelt variation. It’s also open source and made by a former Google employee.

Disconnect [via TechCrunch]

Filed Under: Chrome, Facebook, GMail, Google, Privacy, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: google, open source

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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