The Lightbeam plugin for Firefox allows you to see who and how requests information from the user's PC

After information about how much American intelligence services have advanced in terms of monitoring users of the Network, various kinds of software that allows you to control the dissemination of your own data are becoming more and more popular. Many companies produce the appropriate software, and Mozilla is no exception. Now this company has introduced the Lightbeam plugin, which helps the user to understand who is tracking the user's personal information when surfing.

The plugin monitors the addresses of web servers, creating an informative diagram, which shows what kind of resource requested information. According to the developers, it could be a social network, some kind of statistics collection script, an advertising script, and so on. During operation, the user can display the information collected by the script on the display by simply clicking on the plug-in icon.
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This plugin is a heir to another Mozilla plugin called Collusion. Lightbeam allows you to customize the sending of relevant information in Mozilla, if desired, the user. Of course, the plug-in's operation scheme is not new - it tracks cookies, conducting detailed analysis of such files.

Via pcworld