While I understand that having an ad company behind a piece of software like this might be discomforting, I think an article like this being posted on site with

While I understand that having an ad company behind a piece of software like this might be discomforting, I think an article like this being posted on site with ~10 trackers/analytics/ad tools/"social" plugins is equally discomforting. Or not one mention of "GhostRank". Plus, the option is off by default (something that isn't 100% clear of the article either), I'd like Mr. Simonite to have a look at all the options of information snooping present in mobile devices or Windows 8. Just the number of them, how clear the information is and which of them are disabled by default. Oh well...