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DIVERSIFY-project / amiunique

Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet
https://amiunique.org/
MIT License
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Do not recommend Ghostery #33

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

Please remove Ghostery from recommended tools. It is closed-source and company that owns it have double interests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism

plaperdr commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your interest in AmIUnique! We are well aware of the criticism around Ghostery but we decided to keep it in our list. Ghostery blocks a really big set of trackers compared to other similar extensions and the share of anonymous data is opt-in by default (and not opt-out). If you are interested in the code, it is not a complete black box as it can easily be extracted from the extension packages and it is not obfuscated.