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This is a funny story to report for a web site (wccftech) that has 85 tracking widgets on that one page. Thanks for blocking all of those Ghostery!
by st3fan 12y ago
This is a funny story to report for a web site (wccftech) that has 85 tracking widgets on that one page. Thanks for blocking all of those Ghostery!
- Trufa 12y agoAnd Ghostery is owned by an advertising company that tracks you by default.
- 3rd3 12y agoIs Disconnect.me better in that regard?
- Trufa 12y agoWell if you trust that ghostery wont track you if you disable, I think it's pretty good. I have never heard of them until now to be honest so I'm not the guy to ask.
- bsilvereagle 12y agoYou can view (and modify) the source code of all Chrome extensions to check that it won't track if the option is disabled: Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\<Name>\Extensions Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/
- sp332 12y agoGhostrank? It's disabled by default.
- Trufa 12y agoIt may have changed recently but for sure until some time ago, an option that clearly said they are tracking you, was activated by default.
- yarrel 12y agoJust checked on a new install, it's disabled.
- throwaway2048 12y agoGhostrank has never been enabled by default
- rmrfrmrf 12y agoNoScript master race :P
- RKearney 12y agoIt's actually much worse than that. Without any kind of ad blocking or privacy extensions, 2 minutes after loading the page, it has made 770 HTTP requests and used 18.5 MB of data. Is this becoming the industry standard now for blogs and news sites?