Adtools

Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]

Techdirt reports that gaming site The Escapist has apparently banned users who mention the Firefox add-on Adblock. After much user anger they listened to their users and later un-banned those them but it seems to have left a bitter taste in the users mouths. http://techdirt.com/articles/20100420/1042189110.shtml