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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: polonus on June 20, 2013, 11:37:34 PM
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The popular ad blocker extension has fallen through miserably. It also helps ad industry making improvements to their online tracking.
Read here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/ (link article author = Tom Simonite)
Read about Ghostery's double agenda: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438
Ghostery - ads are good for you!
Transparancy and Control good for the Ads Industry...
General Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery
polonus
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The popular ad blocker extension has fallen through miserably. It also helps ad industry making improvements to their online tracking.
Read here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/ (link article author = Tom Simonite)
Read about Ghostery's double agenda: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438
Ghostery - ads are good for you!
Transparancy and Control good for the Ads Industry...
General Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery
polonus
I have know that from the day I installed Ghostery.
Since they were good enough to provided the service of blocking tracking cookies, I let them track me for a month, and then turned off the tracking feature.
Everyone that installed Ghostery should have known this.
The program works, and it's easy to prove that it works.
See attachment:
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The popular ad blocker extension has fallen through miserably. It also helps ad industry making improvements to their online tracking.
Read here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/ (link article author = Tom Simonite)
Read about Ghostery's double agenda: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438
Ghostery - ads are good for you!
Transparancy and Control good for the Ads Industry...
General Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery
polonus
I have know that from the day I installed Ghostery.
Since they were good enough to provided the service of blocking tracking cookies, I let them track me for a month, and then turned off the tracking feature.
Everyone that installed Ghostery should have known this.
The program works, and it's easy to prove that it works.
See attachment:
I have Ghostery but I didn't enable Ghost Rank.
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I rather like the transparency of this add-on coming as a userscript ready install in Chrome: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35051
It makes the webbugs visible and one could analyse where they go.
When you find up such a webbug you can use ABP to block that image...
polonus
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Thanks for info Polonus. :)
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Hi schmidthouse,
But if you have ScriptSafe installed, it also lists all your hidden webbeacons or webbugs it is blocking,
also all iframes and scripts, just hoover each to see paths)
polonus
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I rather like the transparency of this add-on coming as a userscript ready install in Chrome: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35051
It makes the webbugs visible and one could analyse where they go.
When you find up such a webbug you can use ABP to block that image...
polonus
Hi Damian:
Is Web Bug Detector still developed?
By notetaker — Last update Oct 8, 2008 — Installed 6,566 times.
Source (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35051)
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Well it is still very functional as it highlights these webbugs as green squares. Yes test it on http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html? up.nytimes.com (1) and wt.o.nytimes.com (1)
DNT is actually still in a beta phase with incidental first party blocking as on user-demand and FP's because users deliberately click adverts.
That is why Mozilla has joined with Stanford: https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/06/19/mozilla-joins-with-stanford-and-others-to-launch-cookie-clearinghouse/
to achieve more transparency..
polonus
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I see. Thanks