Open source vendor Mozilla is well-known by now for its browser Firefox. Recently, it launched an experimental add-on to Firefox called Collusion.

Collusion allows users to see all the third parties that are tracking their movements across the Web. It depicts this data in real time in a spider-web graphic showing the interaction between the user & other trackers.

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.

Mozilla has always been a proponent of an open & transparent Internet. Explaining the rationale behind the introduction of Collusion, it said many services rely on user data to provide relevant content & enhance a user’s Online experience. But most tracking happens without users’ consent & without their knowledge. The guys at Mozilla argu that should not be the case. They feel it should be the users who should decide when, how & if they wanna be tracked. Collusion thus is a tool to help Net users do just that.

Image credit: Mozilla

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