Hi, I work on the Ghostery extension. In addition to my answer regarding the business model of Ghostery above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897809 ht

Hi, I work on the Ghostery extension. In addition to my answer regarding the business model of Ghostery above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897809. I'd like to add a few things to address your points: (1) Ghostery did not "fall completely out of favor", as far as I can see. It is true that in _some communities_ (in particular some sub-reddits), some people tend to recommend different addons instead (often not based on any technical arguments, though), but this is not a trend that can be generalized (more people continue to recommend Ghostery as a very solid privacy protection suit). (2) EFF's Privacy Badger is not a replacement for Ghostery, for more information about why, we wrote about it in the past[1][2]. (3) Ghostery has an "actual ad-blocker" built-in, in fact, it is one of the most efficient out there as was shown in a study that we published this year[3]. The adblocker as well as benchmarks are open-source and anyone can run them locally to verify the claims. We also more recently wrote extensively about the internals of this adblocker[4]. References: [1]: https://whotracks.me/blog/how_cliqz_antitracking_protects_users.html https://whotracks.me/blog/how_cliqz_antitracking_protects_us... [2]: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-blocking-trackers.html https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-b... [3]: https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html [4]: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-born-equal.html https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-born...