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At the end of last year, I spent a while working with an adtech firm, helping them figure out their product strategy. They all use Ghostery and I started using

At the end of last year, I spent a while working with an adtech firm, helping them figure out their product strategy. They all use Ghostery and I started using it too. Subjectively, my web-browsing experience improved massively, particularly page load times. It's nice to see that experience borne out by objective testing. I often think that companies like Ghostery are missing a trick by not advertising themselves as a method of speeding up your internet connection because that's really what it does.

XzetaU8 11y ago
"Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home" https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2015-April/015236.html https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2015-A...
- stingraycharles 11y ago
  Well yeah, because Ghostery is a product of Evidon, which helps adtech businesses to get visitors to opt-in to tracking. It's a clever strategy, because they give valuable feedback about which ads and trackers are blocked for which reasons. If you can't beat them, outcompete them! (I worked as CTO of an adserving platform and had to reject sales calls from Evidon on an almost monthly basis)
paulryanrogers 11y ago
If they were using Ghostery to block ads--aside from testing--that would be ironic.