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Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.  
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.  


For collusion updates, please follow the [http://mozilla-collusion.tumblr.com/ Collusion blog].
= Coordination Pointers =


= Links =
Weekly meetings will be Thursdays, 11am Pacific.  Vidyo meeting room Collusion, dial-in details to be added shortly.


Code is on [https://github.com/mozilla/collusion Github]
Code is on [https://github.com/mozilla/collusion Github]
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Mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion collusion@mozilla.org].
Mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion collusion@mozilla.org].
IRC channel is #collusion on irc.mozilla.org.


Development mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion-dev collusion-dev@mozilla.org].
Development mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion-dev collusion-dev@mozilla.org].

Revision as of 02:30, 19 September 2012

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.

Coordination Pointers

Weekly meetings will be Thursdays, 11am Pacific. Vidyo meeting room Collusion, dial-in details to be added shortly.

Code is on Github

Bug list is in the GitHub issue tracker.

Mailing list is collusion@mozilla.org.

IRC channel is #collusion on irc.mozilla.org.

Development mailing list is collusion-dev@mozilla.org.

Chrome/Safari port

Latest released version of the add-on

The original Collusion blog post by Atul Varma: http://www.toolness.com/wp/2011/07/collusion/

Roadmap [DRAFT]

  • Collusion logo for web and t-shirts
  • Standardize data format
  • Revised look and feel
  • Features
    • Enable blocking filters (off and on)
    • Show individual tracker info on tabs
  • Harmonize cross-browser versions (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
    • parallel repos, contribute patches to each other
    • common look and feel, features
  • data safety
    • Data sharing opt-in w/ public-facing database API
  • Improve visualization
    • Better indicators for sites who are trackers - Q: why is this node red? independently verifiable
  • More and better discovery - idea: filters (Privacychoice.org)
  • website improvements
    • display data from global tracking db - for Collusion users add a "throw your coin in the fountain" feature
  • improved branding/product description

Guide to Collusion development

TODO