A lot of websites will track or monitor what you do or where you go online. Basically, so that the authors can get an understanding of their audiences, so that trends can be gathered for additional content, advertising or any other type of profitable gain.
There used to be an Internet Explorer Add-on called EyeDecide, many years ago, which allowed you to stop certain websites loading monitoring cookies or scripts.
Well, for FireFox, here is Ghostery!
Ghostery: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 , http://www.ghostery.com/
Developed by David Cancel watches the websites that are watching you! It places a PacMan ghost in the bottom right of your browser that alerts you of bugs, ad trackers, widgets or scripts. It will tell you how many of these bugs are tracking you and allows you to block them.
Try it out. Here’s a short video from YouTube that demonstrates its use.
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