[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Do-Not-Track Tools: Hands-On Showdown here

[Internet2k4]

Interesting that DNT detects and defaults to allow trackers - like Omniture on this site - where blocking will impair site functionality. The tracker shows up when the icon is clicked with a "suggested" notation. (So why is Omniture tracking me, PCWorld?)

[Toulinwoek]

One slight and minor inaccuracy in this otherwise good article: Cookies are not 'stashed in your browser', they are actually kept as easily deletable files on your hard drive.
Of course, if you indiscriminately delete them all, some of your favorite sites will lose any custom settings you made or will 'forget' that you've visited them before. There are programs that can help you be a bit more selective about which cookies to delete and which to keep. I'd suggest starting by changing your browser settings to never allow third-party cookies.

I for one an sick of being on, say, MSN and having four ads from a site I visited yesterday flashing all over the place! I'm going to give this DNT+ a try and see how it does.

[TheOldTopkick]

Since Microsoft changed the way it identifies cookies, I have been forced to delete all cookies and block all domains that send spam. This DNT+ sounds like a good idea. It may save me from major annoyances.

[DrejXArmy]

DNT+ works great, just you need to download it for each browser. It only detects the browser your using, not the broswers install. I use it for IE9 and works GREAT. Highly recommend it. I have also found that DNT+ stops web advertising too, since it runs off of what it finds on you, it cannt find anything, so all I see are white blocks on some pages, other pages are just generic ads. Still a plus...

[jbrelish]

Hmmm,I run DNT+ and this article shows 9 items being blocked.

[YellowEagle]

It (DNT ) defaults on some sites, because if you read what it says that some functionality of the Site might not work so it gives you suggestions on ones you might want to leave on. You can turn them off or on with a click.

I find the program works very well. and they are making improvements all the time' as of this month so far it has Blocked 19,048 tracking and ad company's, and as i don't use any of the Social sites or networks i have them blocked to. It seems to work very well for me, and I've had no problem with it in IE and Fire Fox. I quite using Google as anytime you use Google it automatically starts it's tracking and recording of anywhere you go or what you do on the net. I don't use it's search engine either.

[YellowEagle]

encycloman, on 10 April 2012 - 03:04 AM, said:

For real spying on us check out http://rt.com/news/u...center-spy-789/

Now that's very interesting, another thing i noticed is who is footing the Bill for this, they say the NSA, but in reality it's the tax payer that foots the bill, so we are basically paying them to spy on ourselves. How Absurd is that. And they wonder why people want some laws to protect themselves on privacy.

The Anti-terrorist policy's are really putting more fear and taking away more rights then anything else in this Country. And the terrorist are laughing their a**'s off and not having to even lift a finger. They would just find a way around this. And it's only the Honest Hard Working American that will suffer for it in the Long run.

well getting a bit off track here, so back on Topic hehehe.

This post has been edited by YellowEagle: 10 April 2012 - 09:17 AM

[Ambular]

jbrelish, on 10 April 2012 - 03:45 AM, said:

Hmmm,I run DNT+ and this article shows 9 items being blocked.

Ghostery only shows 8. But I may have allowed something at some point.

Anyway, a combination of Ghostery with NoScript, AdBlockPlus, BetterPrivacy and Cookie Culler effectively keeps anything and everything I don't want off my system and out of my face. I also check the Firefox do-not-track box, since it's there. Don't see how it can hurt.

[Harmil2]

I tried DNT+. Worked great for about a week, then I noticed ie9 (win7x64) was getting slower and buggy and just kept getting worse. I had no idea what to do when it finally started freezing up and getting messages that ie9 was closing due to problems. On a wild hunch, I used my trusty Revo uninstaller and dumped DNT+. After a moderate scan and finish I tried ie9 again and all was great. No more error messages and freezes and fast to boot. I am now hesitant to try other blockers.

[GeekyScientist]

I like DNT+ Right now it is showing 17 trackings blocked from this page. Irt is nice to know who you have to watch out for.

Are you listening PCW

[YellowEagle]

Harmil2, on 12 April 2012 - 10:09 AM, said:

I tried DNT+. Worked great for about a week, then I noticed ie9 (win7x64) was getting slower and buggy and just kept getting worse. I had no idea what to do when it finally started freezing up and getting messages that ie9 was closing due to problems. On a wild hunch, I used my trusty Revo uninstaller and dumped DNT+. After a moderate scan and finish I tried ie9 again and all was great. No more error messages and freezes and fast to boot. I am now hesitant to try other blockers.

You can control what the product blocks, it will give you suggestions on why it leaves certain things on, some of these are needed for functionality on some sites and in some browsers. Though IE is a Bust in functionality, it has gotten only worse over the years. Go to Fire Fox learn to use it, you won't even look back, or try one of the other browsers.

[YellowEagle]

Evildave, on 12 April 2012 - 04:29 PM, said:

Nah, if you get into it with any PCW staff, they claim that you're a clueless idiot, and that instructing your browser to share everything you do here with a dozen different servers run by different corporations completely outside of their control is perfectly safe and legit.

I haven't had any problem with DNT, in one month it has blocked more then 19,000 of the tracking company's even on PC worlds Site, true though I'm sure many of these are the same company's that just keep trying to track you. But it does the job. And like any Software you need to learn how to set it. It does do a good job, but you can fine tune it. As for PC World i don't get into it with their people though i will say if a article is Biased and or what they are writing is wrong. Authors should to be Unbiased in their articles.

[ZipFolder]

I agree, use proxy add on from your browsers.

[dkingsborough]

I've been using DNT+ for several weeks now, it is excellent.