Interesting to see who's tracking me ! I'm blocking them one by one with no ill effects.What is Ghostery?
Ghostery is a browser tool available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer. It scans the page for scripts, pixels, and other elements and notifies the user of the companies whose code is present on the page. These page elements aren't otherwise visible to the user, and often not detailed in the page source code. Ghostery allows users to learn more about these companies and their practices, and block the page elements from loading if the user chooses.
It all started when one of my usual favourite webpage visits triggered a targetted ad spam mail to my phone in 10 seconds, after I viewed an article. This annoyed me greatly.
I've since decided to stop them and turned tracking, cookies, ads etc OFF.
They didn't bother me before, but this just annoyed me as it was so fast and blatant!
Ghostery is for the browser and is very easy to use. The small window at top right shows the trackers who are on each page and it disappears after 10 secs or whatever you set in options.
There's a small icon added to top bar. A right click on this shows the source and a single tick blocks them. Great stuff.