Disconnect.me Lets You Control Your Data Online

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Name: Disconnect.me

One-Liner Pitch: The browser extension helps users monitor and block more than 2,000 websites from collecting their data online.

Why It's Taking Off: Disconnect.me was founded by an ex-Googler to put users in control of their browsing history.

Brian Kennish spent more than a decade building the software that allows companies to track your data online. He developed ad servers for Double Click in the early 2000s, and then joined Google where he worked on the search giant's first AdWords API. But then he became a heavy Facebook user, and his thinking about ad-tracking technology started to change Read more...