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Lightbeam for Firefox – Shine a Light on Who’s Watching You
- drethemadrapper 11y agoI disabled this plug-in months ago because I was not too interested in who is watching me (of which I know - google analytics, facebook, and most importantly the NSA). I was rather more interested in blocking their APIs, scripts, e.t.c. Hence, I began to use reactive mechanisms - plugins like HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, RefControl and Ghostery. I know they are intertwined (i.e. some doing the same work). But I prefer that approach to a listing or graphical visualization of who watches me (with little of no (re)action).
- exodust 11y agoLightbeam lets you see and block individual third party sites. It's actually pretty good.
- exodust 11y agoOdd that the product page for Lightbeam makes no mention of the granular blocking feature. It's almost like they don't want to advertise that, rather calling it a visualisation tool. Not until you install it and take a look do you find that blocking any particular site is easy to do and manage. I've noticed a few sites I regularly visit are faster now that I've blocked some of their third party tracking and advertising crap with lightbeam. I've even blocked facebook.com and facebook.net, I hate their stupid junky web page widgets cluttering the web. Now I'm finally rid of it. Sure, I can't visit Facebook at all, but that's a small price for not seeing any of their crappy like buttons on the web anymore.