Decentraleyes for Chrome

With a continually growing market that is estimated to reach almost $8 billion in North America alone, there is no doubt that Content Delivery Network or CDN have a crucial role to play in the online environment. Not only do they help users get the best experience when visiting various pages and sites, but they also cut down on the development costs.

Despite their numerous benefits, CDN vendors also have the possibility to track user profiles. While it may seem harmless at first, the truth is that retaining data about profiles in conjunction with other data tracking help them deliver advertisements that suit that may interest you at some point or another.

Decentraleyes for Chrome is a utility designed to safeguard you from most tracking means coming from the CDNs. Unlike a standard ad-blocker, the add-on comes with the advantage that it can advert banners, popups and similar content without breaking the web pages in the process.

While it sounds melodramatic, the truth that there is a price to pay for speed and convenience. Consequentially, each time you visit a retailer shop, use an account to an online service or log in social networks, you are basically providing these networks with data such as who you are, your location, what you purchased or the type of content you commonly access.

This is where the add-on makes all the difference, as it can intercept the requests made by CDN and provide them with a file from the local store. The result grants you two benefits, namely that your web browsing is masked and hence, cannot be tracked by service providers. Moreover, since the app redirects to a local file, the browsing speed and loading are not affected in any way.

As the developer also points out, please take note that the utility is not designed to work standalone, but rather it is made to complement other ad-repellent tools, such as NoScript, uMatrix, HTTPS Everywhere or uBlock Origin, among others.

In the eventuality that you value your privacy and are tired of running across ads of items or services that you had an interest a short while ago, then perhaps you can consider giving Decentraleyes for Chrome a try.