3 ms·
Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon. I think this is more heat than light. The "Ghost Rank" functionality, whereby anonymous usag
by rosser 13y ago
Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon.
I think this is more heat than light. The "Ghost Rank" functionality, whereby anonymous usage data is uploaded to Evidon is opt-in with recent versions of Ghostery, and they have to pay for the engineers that created the tool and keep it up to date somehow...
- krichman 13y agoI switched to disconnect.me a while back because I have a cynical view of a tracker blocker tracking people, even if there is the option to disable it. And for similar reasons I dropped AdBlock when they decided to let companies pay to be unblocked.
- Amadou 13y agoRequestPolicy FTW - unlike those other plugins, it is a whitelisting system so nobody slips through just because they are new. It is also site-specific, so if you want to load up disqus from one site but not any others, you can. https://www.requestpolicy.com/ https://www.requestpolicy.com/ Downside? You have to be more involved by manually whitelisting the necessary sites like CDNs. I've been using it for years and it doesn't bother me, although I'd say 5% of the time I'll just give up rather than work through a list of 10+ cross-site references.
- krichman 13y agoThank you! I much prefer whitelisting, but had not known about this one.