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		npongratz on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For your security, please email your credit card a... 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.

rosser on Sept 19, 2013 | [–]

Ghostery's anonymized data sharing is opt-in.

Source: current, updated Ghostery user.

npongratz on Sept 19, 2013 | | [–]

Thank you. I appreciate the correction.

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