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Good question. I tried Priv3 today, but it seems to be the subset of Ghostery. BTW, it is necessary to use ABP, when I have Ghostery installed? (I don't intent

by greyman 15y ago

Good question. I tried Priv3 today, but it seems to be the subset of Ghostery. BTW, it is necessary to use ABP, when I have Ghostery installed? (I don't intent to block ads, unless they actively track me, like Adsense, etc.)

alexro 15y ago
AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs
- peto123 15y ago
  Are you sure?
- slowpoke 15y ago
  You can switch blocking off, and that is, for some reason I don't understand, the default. Ghostery runs a simple wizard the first time you restart the browser after installing it where it asks you if you want to turn on blocking or not.
slowpoke 15y ago
>I don't intent to block ads May I ask why? I can understand whitelisting domains who you regularly visit and use (and thus want to support with ad income) and whom you trust to serve safe and unobtrusive ads , but I would be going insane without ABP on the web. It's excruciating to use a browser without ABP installed. Imagine trying to hold a conversation with someone while at least half a dozen of people are screaming nonsense at you - that's how it feels to browse the web with ads to me.
- poppysan 15y ago
  Maybe it' the consumer in me, but I feel responsible to view the ads on websites I frequent. If I see something I may like to purchase, then I'd rather the middleman be a website I frequent, so I can show support. May be trained behavior, but it is why I dont use ABP.
- danssig 15y ago
  I hear people say this, but personally I've never used any ad block and I nearly never see ads. Unless something weird happens like that one add that seemed to reach up into another one, I really never notice them.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago
  I could go without Adblock, but I absolutely could not use the web without Flashblock. If you run advertisements that automatically play sounds, you ought to be shot and dumped in a river.
FellowesQi2014 15y ago
Yes, it is necessary. Think of Ghostery as filling the role of a black-list and ABP filling the role of a grey-list (and sometimes white-list).

by greyman 15y ago

alexro 15y ago

AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs

peto123 15y ago
Are you sure?
slowpoke 15y ago
You can switch blocking off, and that is, for some reason I don't understand, the default. Ghostery runs a simple wizard the first time you restart the browser after installing it where it asks you if you want to turn on blocking or not.

slowpoke 15y ago

>I don't intent to block ads May I ask why? I can understand whitelisting domains who you regularly visit and use (and thus want to support with ad income) and whom you trust to serve safe and unobtrusive ads , but I would be going insane without ABP on the web. It's excruciating to use a browser without ABP installed. Imagine trying to hold a conversation with someone while at least half a dozen of people are screaming nonsense at you - that's how it feels to browse the web with ads to me.

poppysan 15y ago
Maybe it' the consumer in me, but I feel responsible to view the ads on websites I frequent. If I see something I may like to purchase, then I'd rather the middleman be a website I frequent, so I can show support. May be trained behavior, but it is why I dont use ABP.
danssig 15y ago
I hear people say this, but personally I've never used any ad block and I nearly never see ads. Unless something weird happens like that one add that seemed to reach up into another one, I really never notice them.
pavel_lishin 15y ago
I could go without Adblock, but I absolutely could not use the web without Flashblock. If you run advertisements that automatically play sounds, you ought to be shot and dumped in a river.

FellowesQi2014 15y ago

Yes, it is necessary. Think of Ghostery as filling the role of a black-list and ABP filling the role of a grey-list (and sometimes white-list).