Note: Although Disconnect is listed as free, it is actually subscriptionware. The first thirty [30] days are free for evaluation.

Disconnect crawls the Web to find the companies that track people, then works in your browser to block tracking requests from those companies.

Features

• Toolbar Button. The toolbar button lives at the top of your browser and shows you the total number of tracking requests on every page you go to. Green means all the requests on a page are blocked. Gray means some are unblocked. Click the button to see and block or unblock the requests.
• Dropdown. The dropdown shows you the number of tracking requests on a page by company. Green or checked means the requests are blocked. Gray or unchecked means they're unblocked. Click any icon or checkbox to block or unblock requests.
• Navbar. The navbar links to helpful pages.
• Common Tracking Sites. Common tracking sites -- Facebook, Google, and Twitter -- are shown separately to make them easy to block or unblock. Click any icon to block or unblock a site.
• Other Tracking Sites. Other tracking sites are shown by category -- advertising, analytics, social networking, and content -- and company. Click any arrow to show or hide the companies in a category. Click any icon to block or unblock a category. Click any checkbox to block or unblock a company.
• Options:
• The Whitelist site or Blacklist site button lets you unblock or block all the requests on the site you're on. Your preference will be remembered the next time you go to the site.
• The Visualize page button lets you graph the requests on the site you're on. See that view for more instructions.
• The Secure Wi-Fi checkbox lets you prevent wireless eavesdropping by forcing sites to encrypt your data whenever possible.
• Dashboard. The dashboard shows you Disconnect's effect on the page you're on -- the time and bandwidth you saved and the number of Wi-Fi requests you secured. Click the Facebook or Twitter icons to share these stats with your friends.