Case Study
Over 250 trackers per employee per workday
A Fortune 500 enterprise deployed Disconnect and discovered the scale of employee tracking that traditional security tools miss entirely, including infrastructure subject to foreign intelligence laws.
The Problem
Large enterprises invest heavily in network security, endpoint protection, and identity management. But commercial trackers operate beneath these defenses, embedded in ordinary websites and business applications that employees use every day.
Existing security platforms are not designed for comprehensive tracker protection. They handle hundreds of security features; tracker blocking is one small checkbox among many. The result: employees at high-value organizations are tracked thousands of times per week by domains they never consented to.
of all web requests on U.S. Army networks were to tracker domains
U.S. Army Cyber Institute, West Point
real-time bidding broadcasts per year across the U.S. and Europe
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
What Trackers Collect From Your Employees
Every website visit generates data that trackers silently harvest. This isn't just browsing history — it's a comprehensive profile of each employee.
Device Identity & Location
Screen size, graphics card, fonts, and 200 more data points create a 99% unique fingerprint. GPS, IP, and WiFi positioning track your geolocation.
Real Identity
Email from any form, login cookies, email-to-IP databases. Links anonymous profiles to your real name.
Interests & Intent
Sensitive purchase, health, and financial activity. Mouse movements, keystrokes, scroll patterns, and detailed browser and app data.
How Attackers Buy Access to Your Employees
Attackers don't hack your network. They buy access to high-value targets through advertising systems and data brokers.
1
Attacker poses as advertiser
Buys a hyper-targeted campaign using 1M+ targeting segments: employer, role, location, age, income, health, interests.
2
Ad system delivers your profile
When you see or click the ad, the attacker receives your IP address, device fingerprint, location, and every targeting segment. Data brokers fill in real name, email, employer, home address.
3
Precision attack launched
Your tracker profile becomes the foundation for precision phishing, social engineering, malware delivery, or blackmail. No hacking required.
Foreign Intelligence Exposure
Across enterprise deployments, the most frequently blocked tracker domains consistently include infrastructure owned by Chinese technology companies. Under China's 2017 National Intelligence Law, these corporations are required to share collected data with state intelligence services upon request.
- Chinese-owned tracker domains consistently appear among the top data harvesters in enterprise environments
- A single tracker domain can generate over 100 connections per employee per week, invisible to traditional security tools
- The DOJ's Bulk Sensitive Data Rule now restricts data transfers to adversary nations with penalties up to $368,136 per transaction
The Off-VPN Problem
Your device fingerprint follows you everywhere. The corporate VPN only delays the linkage.
At the Office
Employees browse through your security platform. Trackers see a corporate IP and begin building a device fingerprint.
At Home
Same device, same fingerprint, but now from a residential IP. Tracker instantly merges your work and personal profiles.
Profiles Merged
Corporate browsing + personal browsing + home address + family members on same network. One identity, fully exposed.
Deployment Results
Disconnect Cloud Privacy Plus deployed via existing security infrastructure. No new agents, no endpoint software, no disruption to employees or workflows. Protection is customizable across four levels, from balanced to full lockdown, with less than 0.1% of blocked domains requiring whitelisting.
250+
Trackers blocked per employee per workday
39%
Less data usage with protection enabled (IEEE peer-reviewed)
Complementing Existing Security Infrastructure
Enterprise security platforms handle hundreds of features. Disconnect specializes exclusively in tracker protection. Different depth of coverage, not a competing product.
Performance
12-14x
more trackers blocked than leading security platforms' best practice policies
27x
more trackers blocked than default security platform configurations
Zero disruption
<0.1%
of blocked domains required whitelisting, resolved same day
0
employee complaints about browsing speed or usability
2.4x
faster page loads with Disconnect protection enabled
Environmental Impact
20+ tons
Estimated CO2 reduction per year at full enterprise deployment
Every blocked tracker is infrastructure that doesn't load — less bandwidth, less processing, less energy consumed.
Who is Disconnect
Industry-standard tracker protection, powering the world's most trusted browsers.
350M+
Users protected daily
44T+
Tracker connections analyzed per year
185K+
Fingerprinting signals detected
Since 2011
Industry-defining tracker protection
Mozilla Firefox
Default tracker protection for all Firefox users
Microsoft Edge
Tracker protection, fingerprint blocking, entity mapping
Trusted by the world's leading technology companies
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