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Don't you know that ghostery works for advertisers by providing them profiling info on people who black which ads so advertisers can better target them ? « Gho

Don't you know that ghostery works for advertisers by providing them profiling info on people who black which ads so advertisers can better target them ? « Ghostery makes money by tracking the trackers while blocking them and selling data about third party trackers, which it calls Ghostrank. Disconnect takes a pay-what-you-want approach, but it is still developed by a for-profit company founded by a former Google engineer. Adblock is donation-supported, but many users confuse it with Adblock Plus, which has generated controversy for having advertisers pay to land on a whitelist. » http://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-ad-blockers-same-why-150015645.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-ad-blockers-same-why-15001... see also: http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to... https://thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/ad-blocker-ghostery-actually-helps-advertisers-if-you-support-it/ https://thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/ad-blocker-... http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actually-sells-data-to-a-514417864 http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall... You may want to switch to eff's privacy badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Also have a look into mozilla's ligthbeam: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ and request policy: https://www.requestpolicy.com/ https://www.requestpolicy.com/

scholia 12y ago
> Don't you know that ghostery works for advertisers by providing them profiling info Don't you know that "Ghostrank is off by default, meaning you can use Ghostery without sharing anything ... if you'd prefer". https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq
- bigbugbag 12y ago
  Nope, I didn't know that. I have to admit my knowledge of ghostery is not current as I quit using it not long after the privacy extension got bought by an advertising company. I was shocked that the option to support the extension turned out to be a spying tool for advertisers to design ads that users wouldn't want to block. I tried installing ghostery just now and ghostrank is indeed opt-in now. It is a good thing they upped their PR and changed their faq less than 6 months ago to make it clear how they make money, but they have lost my trust long ago and there's no coming back from that. Then again I wouldn't trust a company whose business is advertising with protecting my privacy and I definitely don't want better advertising, I want advertising to disappear from the web altogether as it was when i first started using it.
RubyPinch 12y ago
privacy badger is annoyingly unspecific you can't block twitter's CDN on non-twitter sites, while allowing it on twitter itself, for example - - - This is all really FUDy regardless adblock plus's whitelist policy is detailed publicly for obvious reasons, yes they do take money, only from companies where that amount of money would be a drop in the ocean, other companies get in free. Its a case of not people paying to get in, but ABP devs making large companies pay a fee to get in, to help fund ABP. https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements - - - "Disconnect takes a pay-what-you-want approach" which is apparently nothing, or a subscription fee. which explains how money appears "but it is still developed by a for-profit company founded by a former Google engineer" from the site: "[...] and a consumer-and privacy-rights attorney." https://disconnect.me/privacy https://disconnect.me/privacy - - - ghostery is already addressed
- bigbugbag 12y ago
  Not sure what you mean about privacy badger whose point is to automatically detect and block third party tracking but doesn't block first party tracking yet which seems to be exactly the bahviour you want (it is planned as an option). It is also based on Do Not Track. For the others, apart from the arguably conflicting business model, as I said the issue is one of privacy, ads are unacceptable because they collect data about me without visitor consent. I use adblockers (and a variety of other tools) to protect privacy, save bandwidth and protect computers from malware.

scholia 12y ago

> Don't you know that ghostery works for advertisers by providing them profiling info Don't you know that "Ghostrank is off by default, meaning you can use Ghostery without sharing anything ... if you'd prefer". https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq

bigbugbag 12y ago
Nope, I didn't know that. I have to admit my knowledge of ghostery is not current as I quit using it not long after the privacy extension got bought by an advertising company. I was shocked that the option to support the extension turned out to be a spying tool for advertisers to design ads that users wouldn't want to block. I tried installing ghostery just now and ghostrank is indeed opt-in now. It is a good thing they upped their PR and changed their faq less than 6 months ago to make it clear how they make money, but they have lost my trust long ago and there's no coming back from that. Then again I wouldn't trust a company whose business is advertising with protecting my privacy and I definitely don't want better advertising, I want advertising to disappear from the web altogether as it was when i first started using it.

RubyPinch 12y ago

privacy badger is annoyingly unspecific you can't block twitter's CDN on non-twitter sites, while allowing it on twitter itself, for example - - - This is all really FUDy regardless adblock plus's whitelist policy is detailed publicly for obvious reasons, yes they do take money, only from companies where that amount of money would be a drop in the ocean, other companies get in free. Its a case of not people paying to get in, but ABP devs making large companies pay a fee to get in, to help fund ABP. https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements - - - "Disconnect takes a pay-what-you-want approach" which is apparently nothing, or a subscription fee. which explains how money appears "but it is still developed by a for-profit company founded by a former Google engineer" from the site: "[...] and a consumer-and privacy-rights attorney." https://disconnect.me/privacy https://disconnect.me/privacy - - - ghostery is already addressed

bigbugbag 12y ago
Not sure what you mean about privacy badger whose point is to automatically detect and block third party tracking but doesn't block first party tracking yet which seems to be exactly the bahviour you want (it is planned as an option). It is also based on Do Not Track. For the others, apart from the arguably conflicting business model, as I said the issue is one of privacy, ads are unacceptable because they collect data about me without visitor consent. I use adblockers (and a variety of other tools) to protect privacy, save bandwidth and protect computers from malware.