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Ghostery might not be as bad as the headlines suggest, but their tracking seems to be opt-out rather than opt-in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682

http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-bl...

A few months ago, Disconnect's founder (byoogle) spoke about why Disconnect is better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5898165

Disclaimer: I used Ghostery for a long time and liked it, but now use Disconnect.



Ghostery's anonymized data sharing is opt-in.

Source: current, updated Ghostery user.


Thank you. I appreciate the correction.




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