In Activity #3, if you use google chrome as a browser, you can download a google extension called Ghostery. Next, you go onto five of your favorite websites. Ghostery is an extension that tells you what companies are tracking you from the website your on. Here is my opinion on what I found:

My five favorite websites all had companies that were tracking me on them. It was very surprising to see that these websites I thought were safe, weren’t really. I noticed that the companies that weren’t tracking me were Apple, Wikipedia, Google, etc. These also seem like safe places so it wasn’t very shocking that no company was tracking me. I blocked all of those companies that were tracking me, but it definitely made me think twice about what websites I go on. And I’m definitely keeping Ghostery!

My Data:

Websites	Amount Of Trackers
Manga High	4 trackers
Netflix	8 trackers
Pusheen The Cat	6 trackers
Prezi	10 trackers
Pandora	7 trackers

Blogging Challenge Week 4 Challenge 1 option 3-Eden

November 6, 2014 eden21 0 - Blogging Challenge, 6th Grade Writers challenge, Digital footprint, fun!, week 4

week 4 activity 3

During this challenge you had to install a don’t track me app called ghostery and go to all of your favorite sites. Once you get to one of your favorite websites you have to check how many trackers there are. Next you have to go to another website look how many trackers you have and compare the number you had then to the number from the other site. On the site cool math games before it even loaded I had six trackers. but when I opened Google drive I had zero trackers. I think that happened because nobody other than me can get into my Google account and on cool math games you don’t have an account so anybody can go on it.

Week 4-Activity 3 by Mike

October 17, 2014November 12, 2014 michaelp21 0 - Blogging Challenge, 6th Grade Writers 4 # blog challenge, Blogging Challenge, Michael, week 4

Week 4-activity 3

The activity I decided to do was activity 3 in which I install the the ghostly extension and see which companies are tracking my activities.

While I was doing my homework I went on five of my favorite websites and saw how many companies were tracking my activities. It shocked me that the most educational site, ixl.com, had the most people monitoring me.

After this whole experience I am probably going to change what sites I go on.