[Ihmahr]

Disconnect is a great open source alternative to Ghostery: https://disconnect.me/

[JumpCrisscross]

It also appears to lag Ghostery and Adblock in efficacy [1]. Granted, AreWePrivateYet is "presented by Ghostery." But Ghostery does not necessarily show up at the top of the list every month (see November 2013). AreWePrivateYet also uses a Stanford study's methodology [2] for its open-source model [3].

Update: Ghostery appears to outperform Disconnect even when both are put in "block all trackers" mode [4].

[1] http://www.areweprivateyet.com

[2] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-...

[3] https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet

[4] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...

[byoogle]

Ghostery’s results are (surprise) quite biased: http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privac...

[mikelat]

In addition if you already have adblock, you can add the privacy list to your subscriptions:

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt

Also addons like requestpolicy and self destructing cookies are beneficial.

[pandatigox]

I thought Privacy Badger would be better, no?