Reviews for TrackMeNot
TrackMeNot by Daniel Howe, Helen Nissenbaum, Janoss
73 reviews
- by Firefox user 13707762, 3 years agoRated 1 out of 5This module doesn't work.
1) Bug: It doesn't save the settings.
2) Unexpected behavior: It just issued the query "dad porn video" with the basic settings. Many queries have no sense.
3) Useless: Nothing has really changed since the plugin was released years ago. It's easilty detected and discarded by search engines.The only benefit of this plugin is that your online profile will be tagged "Likes privacy".
The basic idea is interesting but there was not enough work put into this to make it valuable. - by Bernie, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Great add-on for confusing search engines.
However, I use Firefox in private mode and the add-on does not retain my customized settings when I quit the browser. Is this something the add-on can solve or is it a global issue with Firefox? (Firefox 57 on Mac OS X 10.13.2) - by Firefox user 13676727, 3 years agoRated 4 out of 5Thank you for this add.
I face a problem on Wiindows 10 with Firefox 57: I am making some changes in the options but they get erased when closing. - by Privacy Services LLC, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Must have app. These are the software developers making a difference in the world. Bravo!
- by Firefox user 13618284, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13606966, 3 years agoRated 4 out of 5Good add on so far.
One big problem after updating is that google queries lead to error. The google query is marked as red entry in the log window.
After disabling google as search engine, the add works correct again.
Version of Firefox: 57.0.2 (64-bit)
TrackMeNot: 0.10.3
Windows 10
Please fix this problem - by Niyix, 3 years agoRated 4 out of 5
- by Anonymous, 3 years agoRated 1 out of 5
- by E.Debeaune, 3 years agoRated 4 out of 5For the last few days, your application get stuck on "error" unexpectedly.
And, more importantly, when I enable it, a tab with the homepage of "Google france" opens. (And disappear when I disable "TrackMeNot".
Using Windows 7
Firefox 56.0 - by Firefox user 13041340, 3 years agoRated 3 out of 5This used to work fine, but with the latest updates I'm just getting "Error". I have uninstalled and re-installed, but no luck
Developer response
posted 3 years agoGreetings. Can you tell me your version of Firefox and TrackMeNot, and your OS? Lets see if we can get this fixed for you... - by antiseptic, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5In the options menu it won't let me enable the extension. It sounds like a good idea, but the execution is flawed.
- by Firefox user 12604544, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
Firefox 55.0.3 (64-bit)
Add-ons: Adnauseam, TrackMeNot
Black List problems:
- Original terms can be deleted BUT new terms cannot be added.
- The check mark of "Generate queries including keywords monitored by DHS" disappears after refresh.
Please add the option "White list" so we can add our own words to be included in search queries. - by Firefox user 13260794, 4 years agoRated 2 out of 5french rss feeds do not seem to operate correctly. If alone in the list, no query is sent, and if just added after a | no french query is done. Maybe the syntax of the url i use is incorrect or unusable ? ex. http://www.lefigaro.fr/rss .....
- by Michel Roovers, 4 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Arvind Dilawar, 4 years agoRated 4 out of 5Been using it for years. Has been great, but started reading "Error" since the most recent update, which happened today, June 8, 2017, I believe.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for the review. Please, contact us at the support email address so we can investigate this bug. - by Daedalus_SGA, 12 years agoRated 1 out of 5In theory this is a GREAT addon. BUT google and other search engines are stopping automated searches and are trying to prevent programs like this from running. Also if you run spyware remover and antivirus and delete your cookies then third parties won't get person information instead of just hiding your searches.
- by francesco, 12 years agoRated 5 out of 5I'm sorry if my english is bad but I'm Italian... I've read some of the last comments and I'm not sure that if you use another language than english, for example italian, it's works.
Someone can help me?
Thankyou very much. - by Brad Scott, 12 years agoRated 5 out of 5I love the add-on. It does not slow my PC down any. As far as one reviewer's comments about turning off cookies and/or using Tor, etc. Nice in theory, but doesn't work well in practice. Many sites will not work if you turn cookies off and many others will not work when running Tor. The situation with these solutions remains that way and so I nixed both of them a long time ago. TMN is a great add-on. And benchmarking and resource usage tools I use show it is virtually no load on the machine. As far as wasting search engines resources, well if they prevented people from tracking search results the comment would be valid. But since they don't, TMN, TMN, TMN.
- by Sebastian Müller, 12 years agoRated 4 out of 5Will other languages be available? Because if you use another language than english, you can be tracked very easily
- by a.b., 12 years agoRated 1 out of 5There are better ways to protect your privacy than wasting everyone's - not only Google's but also your ISP's etc. - capacities. Just turn off your cookies and/or use proxies or Tor
- by Dave Garland, 12 years agoRated 4 out of 5Works great for me, on both FF2.x and 3.x, I've been using it for several years. Yahoo will give you errors if you query them much more than 10/hr, I've never gotten google errors (even with several computers on LAN all running TMN), so their threshold must be higher. It's really not necessary to query 10/min to muddy up your search history. TMN coexists nicely with CustomizeGoogle (to anonymize google cookies).