Not many people are aware about how many times Google collects personal browsing data whenever you visit a web page. If you have Firefox, now you can install Google Alarm and make this fact painfully and annoyingly clear.


The Google Alarm Firefox add-on will scream and show an alert every time your personal information is sent to Google servers. Since this happens almost everywhere—thanks to spying bugs like Google Analytics, AdSense, YouTube embeds, Google API calls, and who knows what else—you may just want to look at the demo:


But if you want to get into "Fuck You Google"-mode, go and install the add-on now. It will play an alarm, show a visual notification, and maintain stats of the percentage of sites that send information to Google. And then, imagine what they can do with all that information. [Jamiedubs]

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