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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=1016023438Ghostery - ads are good for you! Transparancy and Control good for the Ads Industry...General Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosterypolonus
Quote from: polonus on June 20, 2013, 11:37:34 PMThe 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=1016023438Ghostery - ads are good for you! Transparancy and Control good for the Ads Industry...General Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhosterypolonusI 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 rather like the transparency of this add-on coming as a userscript ready install in Chrome: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35051It 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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