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From what I recall of their website, they have an opt-in feature whereby the add-on can send them information about what ads are appearing on what pages and the
by EvilTerran 13y ago
From what I recall of their website, they have an opt-in feature whereby the add-on can send them information about what ads are appearing on what pages and the like, and they anonymise and collate the data to sell it. For instance, you could buy a service off them to the effect of "what adverts are actually appearing on my website when Joe User loads it up?"
And I believe I remember also seeing a statement to the effect of "we don't obfuscate the code in our XPI", so you could just extract the add-on as a ZIP file if you want to audit the source.
- Evbn 13y agoAwesome, so their monetization strategy is to undermine the whole product and say "trust me"
- fixanoid 13y agoWell, it would be that if Ghostery didn't offer you choice. Also, the data collected is about trackers and not the user. Note: Ghostery dev here.
- EvilTerran 13y agoJesus H Christ, knee-jerk harder why don't you. Any browser add-on could be monitoring your entire on-line activity. Why the hell does that suddenly become a problem when one's up-front about what data they collect, when they collect it, and what they do with it? And no, they don't say "trust me". As I mentioned in my first comment, they say "if you don't trust us, unpack the add-on and check the source yourself". Which you definitely can - I just did it myself to verify, and it looks like easy reading to me.