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IMHO - Ghostery should not be used, Disconnect should be used instead (https://disconnect.me/). Why? Because Ghostery is selling data to advertisers. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ghoste...



Heres a more comprehensive article on the topic: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

Ghostery would only send data back to Evidon if GhostRank option is enabled.


Plus Disconnect.me is FOSS and (at least when I switched) blocks more than Ghostery.


Yes, but IMHO they are still the best trade off. ( But I will have a look at disconnect, thanks for the link.)




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