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Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by willvarfar on Friday July 08, 2011 @01:57AM (#2741428)
It doesn't properly understand national domains; bbc.co.uk, for example, is shown only as co.uk.

Lovely idea though, but I imagine the author is himself collecting the stats on my browser testing habbits :)

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Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by abhinavsharma on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:09AM (#2741448)
Your data isn't being sent out of your browser. The source code is here:

https://github.com/toolness/collusion

As with all Firefox addons, you can right-click + save-as the xpi file, run "unzip addon-name.xpi" and look at the source.

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Re:Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you... by clarkbw on Friday July 08, 2011 @01:50PM (#2743391)
This co.uk issue was just fixed in github and a new version should be on it's way.
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