Disconnect me.

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Hey guys. I stumbled across this website and I thought it might be of interest. I was able to install it on Pale Moon, FF and Chrome.

 

https://www.disconnect.me/

 

Here is the article that led me to the site-http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/disconnect-search-built-by-ex-google-and-ex-nsa-engineers-lets-you-use-google-bing-and-yahoo-without-tracking/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm currently using it with Chrome and the site renders just fine.  :thumbsup:

Thanks, flagyl!

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Nice find.  I'm going to look into it some. 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

My pleasure guys :). Glad I could help.

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Went and installed it on Chrome. I do see a slight difference in page loading.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I am currently using Ghostery....

Does anyone know if any conflicts arise from actively using more that one add blocking/anti tracking program at the same time?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Too many add-ons can and sometimes do cause conflicts. It has been my experience and that of others that particular add-ons will cause the browser to hang and or not display pages correctly. I don't know of any happening using Ghostery though. What you can do is temporarily disable Ghostery in your browser if you want to try Disconnectme. You can always uninstall it and re-enable Ghostery.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This add on does not work well with Ad Block Plus.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

In DRJBHL's thread about the upload cleanup tool I posted a remark about an unrelated issue. I discovered the cause of the missing emotes when trying to download a WB. Its Disconnectme. I disabled it in Chrome, refreshed the page and the emotes came back. Re-enabled Disconnectme and the emotes vanished. I think it needs a bit more work.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you guys.

I am currently using them simultaneously.  

At first look looking purely on trackers/request counters it does seem that Disconnect me blocks more than Ghostery. How many more varies per page but pages definitely load faster.

Will update if any issues arise from simultaneous usage of them. 

Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thanks for the link, flagyl!  :)  

I removed adblock plus and replaced it with disconnectme.  Some screens seem to load about the same speed as before, but one of my favorite websites is gocomics.  With all the flash ads and trackers, it used to take several seconds to load a page.  Now, it's less than a second.

They claim up to 27% faster, but in that case, it's more like 3 or 4 times faster. 

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting MottiKhan, reply 10

Thanks for the link, flagyl!    

I removed adblock plus and replaced it with disconnectme.  Some screens seem to load about the same speed as before, but one of my favorite websites is gocomics.  With all the flash ads and trackers, it used to take several seconds to load a page.  Now, it's less than a second.

They claim up to 27% faster, but in that case, it's more like 3 or 4 times faster. 

 

I'm glad it helped :). With an avatar like yours, I will always want to stay on your good side (What I'm saying is: Very cool avatar! :) ).

 

I am running it WITH AdBlock plus (and a few of AdBlock's companion add ons) and I am not experiencing any problems or ads. I don't know what the issue is, unfortunately.

 

That said, I'm glad it is helping most of you.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm a bit surprised we don't have some people in hear discussing why using Ad Block is a bad thing. Used to happen all of the time.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting kona0197, reply 12
I'm a bit surprised we don't have some people in hear discussing why using Ad Block is a bad thing. Used to happen all of the time.

Want me to start?

 

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sure, why not. Have at it. ^_^

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

It works on the Comodo Firefox offshoot IceDragon too - I would guess that the Comodo Chrome offshoot Comodo Dragon would work too, but I normally used it in private browsing mode.

I like Ice Dragon Firefox and use it as my main browser now, including Disconnect add-on.  Other Firefox add-ons I would recommend are Karma Blocker (pretty simple to whitelist sites you want to allow, and other sites get rated based on the number of adverts etc.), Google Privacy (works for other major providers such as Yahoo and Bing) and Ad-blocker for Gmail.

Also, if you haven't heard of it and want an alternative to Google, try the DuckDuckGo search engine at "duckduckgo.com".