{"id":223,"date":"2011-03-18T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:30:14","slug":"monitor-the-ad-companies-when-you-browse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/monitor-the-ad-companies-when-you-browse\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor the ad companies when you browse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghostery-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"224\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/monitor-the-ad-companies-when-you-browse\/ghostery-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghostery-Logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"211,48\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Ghostery-Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghostery-Logo.png\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-224\" title=\"Ghostery-Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghostery-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Ghostery has received quite a bit of press lately, so I decided to check it out. It\u2019s a free download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostery.com\">www.ghostery.com<\/a>. The plug-in is available for several browsers. I use the latest Internet Explorer 9, so I had to turn on my command bar to see the ghostery icon and enable it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when I go to a website, it tells me with a popup bubble in the upper right, which ad companies are tracking you. And you can block them!<\/p>\n<p>This all came about because of the enourmous (and often fallible) amount of info the ad companies are collecting about us \u2013 the Internet user.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out! Also, let me know if you\u2019ve found other tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostery has received quite a bit of press lately, so I decided to check it out. It\u2019s a free download at www.ghostery.com. The plug-in is available for several browsers. I use the latest Internet Explorer 9, so I had to turn on my command bar to see the ghostery icon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-3B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}