"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sending data to Google

Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by niekmaas on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:39PM (#1552223)

Considering the amount of websites that use Google Analytics this will result in an almost constant sound. At least the websites I browse often.

But it's an interesting project to make people aware of the amount of data they send to Google. I just dont think that people that do not know this will install a plugin like this.. Or use FireFox at all.

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Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by rquirk on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:07PM (#1552324)

I'm just glad that analytics is on its own domain. Google could easily have placed it at google.com/analytics and it would be much trickier to block. As it is, an entry in hosts or blacklist it in NoScript is all you need.

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Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by jrockway on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:53AM (#1553782)

Adblock Plus does a better job of blocking than those mechanisms, however, and it could handle google.com/analytics just as easily as google-analytics.com.

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