Disconnect was named the best privacy tool by the New York Times in 2016 and also won the Innovation Award for Best Privacy and Security by Southwest in 2015. Besides, Disconnect can block third parties from collecting your data while you’re browsing the web. You can still use Facebook as usual while running Disconnect, but you’ll notice that the Share and Like buttons don’t appear on other websites while the extension is enabled. Shame on you, Mark.ĭisconnect comes in handy by killing Facebook’s pixel trackers thus stopping its crawlers from following you when you browse different websites. What’s even worse is that Facebook doesn’t stop at collecting data provided on the website itself, they can even spy on you while you’re going through other web pages and collect data related to your browsing habits.