fixanoid

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by fixanoid 13y ago
Sadly, that article is full of shit. And I'll edit our entry later to remove the Criticism, which is only partly correct. GhostRank is explicitly for collecting tracker information, and in no way does it allow an advertiser (tho most o
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by fixanoid 13y ago
AMO process too sluggish or does Disconnect have something to hide? I personally really enjoy this "open source" code: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Brian, I understand that its beneficial to you as a competitor to Ghostery to bash Ghostery at this point, but please, refrain from looking stupid. Ghostery collects tracker information and not individual users info. Ghostery requires an op
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi Amadou, you should really post on our support board to get understanding or where Ghostery UI is going.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Precisely. GhostRank collects and repackages tracker information on the web, not individual browsing habits.
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by 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 and not actual data sets. Here are some m
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Nick, this isn't something new that Ghostery started doing this has been in the addon since day 1, even before Evidon purchased Ghostery. There are multiple articles "exposing" this find, and its not something we've been
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by fixanoid 13y ago
I've answered this recently on reddit, heres the relevant link and comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Irony/comments/1ci4ri/went_to_check_... Hardly anything Ghostery does. The rules are defined by Google and the wording is unfortunate but
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Well, it would be that if Ghostery didn't offer you choice. Also, the data collected is about trackers and not the user. Note: Ghostery dev here.
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by fixanoid 15y ago
Ughh, Ghostery is available for iOS as well: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ghostery/id472789016