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| Mozilla's Firefox is the world's second most popular web browser. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives users an instant view of which companies are -watching- them as they browse, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. |
The move comes the same week that Google pushed ahead with its controversial new privacy policy, built to provide even more data for Google's twenty eight billion advertising business -- despite concerns that the harvesting of private data might be illegal in many countries.
The add-on will allow users to -pull back the curtain- on web advertising firms and other third parties that track people's online movements, says Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.
Google's business is built on advertising - the company earned $28 billion from its Ad-Words service in 2010.
Google's new privacy policy allows it to --streamline-- data from Android phones, YouTube, Gmail and web browsing to target its adverts even more precisely towards individual web users.
Mozilla's Firefox is the world's second most popular web browser, a position under threat from Google's own Chrome browser. The Collusion add-on is an official Mozilla product, and was unveiled at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference this week by Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.
