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And ghostery

• TorKlingberg 9y ago
  Ghostery keeps trying to steal my attention with annoying popups.
• majewsky 9y ago
  Ghostery also has some tracking built-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
• karrotwaltz 9y ago
  I tried to switch to the open source Disconnect when I heard Ghostery was acquired by an ad company, but it wasn't on Ghostery's level. The redirect / social button blocker with the "allow once" option is really pleasant.
• eps 9y ago
  Doesn't Ghostery too make money from selling their hoarded user data to the very same advertisers and marketers? EDIT: Yep, it does - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model
• andimm 9y ago
  Which also has an interesting opt-in Business Model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model
• miles 9y ago
  "Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—some may not realize that it feeds data to the ad industry." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/516156/a-popular-ad-block...