[Giveaway] ABINE Do Not Track Plus

Stop the secret online tracking and data collection about you and your activity as you surf the Web. Do Not Track Plus gives you the best-available privacy protection for Firefox by completely blocking and or damaging the capabilities of 100′s of online tracking companies to track you without your intent.
http://www.donottrackplus.com/giveaway.php

 

Anybody tried this, or know more about it ?

Funny what i found on their www

 

I just wonder how this would stack up to someone just using Fanboys tracking list in adblock plus. https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/. Not to mention using Ghostery too. Disconnect is also a good extension that seems to support alot of the features that this $29.99 "Do Not Track Plus" extension offers. Seems a little steep to me considering that you can get the same thing with free extensions. Then again I guess this extension is a freebie for now but who knows if you will get any updates.

 

And who are they? Is the extension in the Mozilla Extension store (or whatever its called)? I wasn't about to download the script from their website which had very sparse information.

 

Do as I say, not as I do.

 

Is it just me or does the site look like a "snake oil" site....

 

ABINE also makes the extension for firefox Privacy Suite Not sure if this is part of it or not. But in my tests it doesn't do much of anything. Snake Oil if you ask me.

 

I installed the extension. To get the full effect, I disable NoScript, turned off Web Bug Blocking in Ghostery and disable Adblock Plus.

On msnbc.msn.com it blocked 4 ad networks and 3 companies. Ghostery reported 7 trackers.
On foxnews.com/fox.com it blocked 6 ad networks and 8 companies. Ghostery reported 7 trackers.
On bbc.co.uk it blocked 3 ad networks and 5 companies. Ghostery reported 7 trackers.
On cbsnews.com it blocked 2 social button, 5 ad networks and 12 companies. Ghostery reported 14 trackers.

I do tend to mistrust sites that hard sell on their pages.

One thing I noticed on that link you gave is it looks as Abine has taken over two of my favorite extensions, Sebastian Tschan's Autofill Forms and Secure Login. I am not so sure I like this new development.They are apparently integrating these in to their Privacy Suite.

On the Autofill Forms page there is a review by user ebin, on same day account was created. Me thinks this is a selfless self promotion by the new developers.

On the brighter side, this could also be a good thing. One extension to replace several extensions I use to achieve the same thing.

 

Hmmm i went to the pages you listed and got the following

bbc.co.uk - 1 cookie
msnbc.msn.com - 2 cookies
foxnews.com/fox.com - o cookies
cbsnews.com - 0 cookies

Now isnt cookies the way these sites secretly track you?

Maybe i didnt get hardily any because of 2 things?

1) I have 3rd party cookies blocked
2) I have scripts disabled


Regardless i delete cookies constantly so any tracking they try wouldnt work anyway... (And when you close your browser you can dump any "Evercookies" that may have been set also)

 

In my above post I stated the following. "To get the full effect, I disable NoScript, turned off Web Bug Blocking in Ghostery and disable Adblock Plus." I also block 3rd party cookies, makes little difference on numbers blocked.

That could be a huge reason your results differed from mine, my goal was to establish that it does indeed block stuff as it claim to do.

One item I do not like is Do Not Track Plus add a boat load of "opt-out" cookies. You cannot delete them either, unless you disable the extension, it just adds them back in. It looks like you should be able to disable this, but it apparently does not work.

In normal use I do not accept cookies from any site except those I specifically allow.

I have "opted-out" of Do Not Track Plus for now. All those extra "opt-out" cookies bug me.

 

Do Not Track Plus, is it Opt Out, or it Blocks?


Thanks....

 

Wait a second..there was an article about these guys the other day. This thing was supposedly a part of the new "wave of free tools" for the privacy concerned...where is the free part? Btw, imho, Abine is not a company I put a lot of stock in. Their TPL for IE 9 was a mess, and I don't expect this to be much better. There are too many tried and true free tools out there to waste money on this.