Interview With Mozilla's Ryan Merkley: Tracking the Trackers

colinneagle writes "Among the eye-opening statements in his recent TED talk, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said, 'Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. Our voices matter and our actions matter even more.' After you download and install Collusion in Firefox, you can 'see who is tracking you across the Web and following you through the digital woods,' Kovacs stated. 'Going forward, all of our voices need to be heard. Because what we don't know can actually hurt us. Because the memory of the Internet is forever. We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.' I've been using Collusion for some time now and it is jaw-dropping to watch all the sites that still stalk us across the web even with DNT and privacy add-ons. The Collusion page states: 'The Ford Foundation is supporting Mozilla to develop the Collusion add-on so it will enable users to not only see who is tracking them across the Web, but also to turn that tracking off when they want to.'"

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Re:Download/Demo here

[Sviams]

And here you are, posting an advert for Optical Express...oh the irony :)

Re:Download/Demo here

[Anonymous Coward]

Those ads have always been there - maybe you can only see them after you had the surgery!

Re:Who?

[dna_(c)(tm)(r)]

Title says interview with Ryan Merkly, TFS says Gary Kovaks at TED talk. Maybe I'm just new here, but does anyone read anymore?

Merkly quotes Kovaks.

Now I can quote oodaloop quoting samzenpus quoting Merkly quoting Kovaks. You can quote me on that.

Re:Who is (really) watching?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Maybe the greater danger isn't that we are being watched, but that algorithms are now in control of our lives"

(if) you use a (bunch) if (parenthesis) psudeo-randomly in your subject (and) u(ser)n(ame) you can fool the algorithms((!!!!))

Re:Download/Demo here

[bitt3n]

you wonder why Optical Express gave you such a good deal on laser surgery, and next you're going to start seeing advertisements on your walls, in your shower, in the blue sky, whenever you close your eyes....