Umrk111
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7 years ago Why bother using Ghostery? I used Ghostery for a while, until I learned trust is something earned... Sorta of like buying transparent privacy curtains because the salesman insisted they worked wonders. ..Simply google this app to learn about them...here's a bit from Wikipedia;
Criticism Some say that Ghostery, Inc. plays a dual role in the online advertising industry. Ghostery blocks sites from gathering personal information. But it does have an opt-in feature GhostRank that can be checked to "support" them. GhostRank takes note of ads encountered and blocked, and sends that information back to advertisers so they can better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked.[14] Though Ghostery claims that the data are anonymized, patterns of web page visits cannot truly be anonymized.[15] Thus not everyone sees Evidon's business model as conflict-free. "Evidon has a financial incentive to encourage the program's adoption and discourage alternatives like Do Not Track and cookie blocking as well as to maintain positive relationships with intrusive advertising companies," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford grad student and privacy advocate.[16] Business model The company that owns Ghostery, Ghostery, Inc. (previously Evidon), plays a dual role in the online advertising industry. Ghostery blocks marketing companies from gathering website user information, but it makes money from selling page visit, blocking and advertising statistics to corporations globally, including corporations that are actively engaged in collecting user information to target ads and other marketing messages to consumers.
Customers include advertising industry groups like Better Business Bureau (BBB) and the Direct Marketing Association, parts of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).[17] These agencies then use those reports to monitor how Online Behavioral Advertisers operate and, when needed, refer them to the Federal Trade Commission.[18] Ghostery also offers data to university students, researchers and journalists to support their work.
According to some journalists, Ghostery is not transparent in how it collects data from users or what that data is used for. Other journalists have claimed that Ghostery sells user data to advertisers to better target their ads.[19] Ghostery, Inc. denies this, asserting that Ghostery does not collect any information that could be used to identify users or target ads specifically at individual users. To support their assertion, the company made the source code open for review in 2010, but after 2010 further source have not been released.[20]
In February 22, 2016 Ghostery, Inc. released new EULA for Ghostery browser extension, as proprietary closed-source product.[21]
smed79
It's clear that the new versions of Ghostery are using some html tech in their new options pane that are being blocked by enabling some blocking/disabling in the script injection/options menu. Confirmed it works with RAS disabled.
Maybe an auto whitelist for the pane? don't know how to address the "Pane" as an object to enter in the whitelist. Not a web dev.
Thanks.