Detectify: Chrome Extensions – AKA Total Absence of Privacy

The "Detectify Labs" site has put up alengthy analysis of the user tracking taking place in many Chromebrowser extensions. "Google, claiming that Chrome is the safest webbrowser out there, is actually making it very simple for extensions to hidehow aggressively they are tracking their users. We have also discoveredexactly how intrusive this sort of tracking actually is and how thesetracking companies actually do a lot of things trying to hide it. Due tothe fact that the gathering of data is made inside an extension, all otherextensions created to prevent tracking (such as Ghostery) are completelybypassed." At the end they note that the situation with Firefox isnot a whole lot better.