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me too. Do you reckon this is enough?

by Lucadg 14y ago

nwh 14y ago
http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/
- cookiecaper 14y ago
  Honestly I found Ghostery useless and ultimately uninstalled it. I am not paranoid enough to want to completely deprive every site of statistics, so I had opt-in by default, and it's difficult to block the especially nefarious packages because they're all lumped together with typical counters/stats scripts. I think NoScript does an adequate job preventing most undesired analyzers, as they will often be on a separate domain that needs temporary activation. Ghostery was just annoying because it'd always be blaring that there were trackers tracking me, but include mostly things that I don't really mind, basically all counters. In fact, I usually want counters to register my UA/OS, so that their recorded Linux marketshare increases. Would be nice if we could install Ghostery as a private-browsing-only extension and turn its default to block everything, but barring that, I don't think it's valuable unless you make it block everything all the time.
  - gtufano 14y ago
    You know, sites have log files for basic stats... Tracking is completely another league. I feel no guilty using Ghostery fully blocking everything by default (and I'm not so paranoid).
    - mylittlepony 14y ago
      The problem is when you use http cache, it screws your basic stats.
- chm 14y ago
  I use this in conjunction with an ad blocker and a NoScripts-like extension. I always wonder how effective this combination is :/
- coenhyde 14y ago
  Ghostery is fantastic. It takes a little while to get setup and maintain as you'll want to disable everything by default then reenable services when things don't work. But it's well worth the effort.
- cpeterso 14y ago
  I use the Ghostery add-on for Firefox, but if you enable "GhostRank" then the add-on will send every URL you visit to Evidon. This is purportedly for "tracking the trackers", but it does give one pause.
josephlord 14y ago
"Enough for what? is the question. I hope it is enough to disrupt the FB and Google from from getting a total view of my activity but I don't think its enough to stop all monitoring and tracking. My main browser is Firefox with NoScript installed and I've been known to back away from sites that won't work without a number of different domains being authorised. Flash isn't installed at all. I use Chrome with Ghostery for Linked In/Facebook and any Google logins plus anything that needs Flash (as I trust Google to keep that up to date even though I don't trust them not to track me). I never log in to Linked In/Facebook/Google on my phone or tablet although I don't have much other protection from tracking there.

me too. Do you reckon this is enough?

by Lucadg 14y ago

me too. Do you reckon this is enough?

nwh 14y ago

http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/

cookiecaper 14y ago
Honestly I found Ghostery useless and ultimately uninstalled it. I am not paranoid enough to want to completely deprive every site of statistics, so I had opt-in by default, and it's difficult to block the especially nefarious packages because they're all lumped together with typical counters/stats scripts. I think NoScript does an adequate job preventing most undesired analyzers, as they will often be on a separate domain that needs temporary activation. Ghostery was just annoying because it'd always be blaring that there were trackers tracking me, but include mostly things that I don't really mind, basically all counters. In fact, I usually want counters to register my UA/OS, so that their recorded Linux marketshare increases. Would be nice if we could install Ghostery as a private-browsing-only extension and turn its default to block everything, but barring that, I don't think it's valuable unless you make it block everything all the time.
- gtufano 14y ago
  You know, sites have log files for basic stats... Tracking is completely another league. I feel no guilty using Ghostery fully blocking everything by default (and I'm not so paranoid).
  - mylittlepony 14y ago
    The problem is when you use http cache, it screws your basic stats.
chm 14y ago
I use this in conjunction with an ad blocker and a NoScripts-like extension. I always wonder how effective this combination is :/
coenhyde 14y ago
Ghostery is fantastic. It takes a little while to get setup and maintain as you'll want to disable everything by default then reenable services when things don't work. But it's well worth the effort.
cpeterso 14y ago
I use the Ghostery add-on for Firefox, but if you enable "GhostRank" then the add-on will send every URL you visit to Evidon. This is purportedly for "tracking the trackers", but it does give one pause.

josephlord 14y ago

"Enough for what? is the question. I hope it is enough to disrupt the FB and Google from from getting a total view of my activity but I don't think its enough to stop all monitoring and tracking. My main browser is Firefox with NoScript installed and I've been known to back away from sites that won't work without a number of different domains being authorised. Flash isn't installed at all. I use Chrome with Ghostery for Linked In/Facebook and any Google logins plus anything that needs Flash (as I trust Google to keep that up to date even though I don't trust them not to track me). I never log in to Linked In/Facebook/Google on my phone or tablet although I don't have much other protection from tracking there.