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In the article, it says it's opt-in. The quotes you added say they get info only if you opt-in. I see nothing wrong with the quotes.

by tdrgabi 13y ago

meritt 13y ago
> I can also assure you that none of the data we have is ever going to be sold to anybody [2010] > Evidon sells two main services based on the data it collects [2013]
- JimJames 13y ago
  This doesn't look good for ghostery but hypothetically both of these statements can be true. They may be referring to the idea that they don't sell an individuals data, only massed results, so no one can be singled out. This is how census data is used, the data itself is never sold but companies can ask for certain queries to be done on the data which are then performed by the census bureau and returned to the client.
  - fixanoid 13y ago
    Precisely. GhostRank collects and repackages tracker information on the web, not individual browsing habits.
- Robin_Message 13y ago
  Companies don't keep promises. No company that buys another is going to be bound by something some developer said three years prior. I wonder if small startups doing popular things for geeks are heading towards a similar backlash against "selling out" that the alternative music scene had in the 80's and 90's.
  - byoogle 13y ago
    I think this is a good analogy. I was involved with indie bands in the 90s and startups now (disclosure: I work on Disconnect, a Ghostery alternative) and have been saying how much the scenes are alike. But the band - I mean, startup - has to take some responsibility. In this case, I think they have to take a lot of the responsibility. When you sell your startup to a company called Better Advertising (Evidon's name before switching), can you really be surprised when the company starts selling your users' data to advertisers?
- fixanoid 13y ago
  As the author of that post 3 years ago, nothing has changed: - Ghostery does not collect user info, just tracker info. - Evidon sells reports like this: http://evidon.com/trackermap http://evidon.com/trackermap and not actual data sets. Here are some more details on our blog: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438 http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

In the article, it says it's opt-in. The quotes you added say they get info only if you opt-in. I see nothing wrong with the quotes.

by tdrgabi 13y ago

In the article, it says it's opt-in. The quotes you added say they get info only if you opt-in. I see nothing wrong with the quotes.

meritt 13y ago

> I can also assure you that none of the data we have is ever going to be sold to anybody [2010] > Evidon sells two main services based on the data it collects [2013]

JimJames 13y ago
This doesn't look good for ghostery but hypothetically both of these statements can be true. They may be referring to the idea that they don't sell an individuals data, only massed results, so no one can be singled out. This is how census data is used, the data itself is never sold but companies can ask for certain queries to be done on the data which are then performed by the census bureau and returned to the client.
- fixanoid 13y ago
  Precisely. GhostRank collects and repackages tracker information on the web, not individual browsing habits.
Robin_Message 13y ago
Companies don't keep promises. No company that buys another is going to be bound by something some developer said three years prior. I wonder if small startups doing popular things for geeks are heading towards a similar backlash against "selling out" that the alternative music scene had in the 80's and 90's.
- byoogle 13y ago
  I think this is a good analogy. I was involved with indie bands in the 90s and startups now (disclosure: I work on Disconnect, a Ghostery alternative) and have been saying how much the scenes are alike. But the band - I mean, startup - has to take some responsibility. In this case, I think they have to take a lot of the responsibility. When you sell your startup to a company called Better Advertising (Evidon's name before switching), can you really be surprised when the company starts selling your users' data to advertisers?
fixanoid 13y ago
As the author of that post 3 years ago, nothing has changed: - Ghostery does not collect user info, just tracker info. - Evidon sells reports like this: http://evidon.com/trackermap http://evidon.com/trackermap and not actual data sets. Here are some more details on our blog: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438 http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438