Haven't seen any posts about this but just wondering if anyone got

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this Avast popup today?.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/privacy-caucus-says-consumers-should-know-how-firms-gather-and-sell-their-personal-information/2012/11/08/fb368ee4-2a01-11e2-aaa5-ac786110c486_story.html?p_pro=0&p_vep=7&p_ves=0&p_lqa=0&p_lqe=0&p_lsu=24&p_lst=0&p_lex=211&p_lng=en&p_lid=en-us&p_elm=80&p_var=%252Ffa%252Fen-us%252Ftoaster-virus-update_news_gov-data-mining-transparency.html

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Did that popup look like what I’ll attach?

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Yes.

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[quote author=-midnight link=topic=109309.msg862299#msg862299 date=1352756908]
Yes.

Darn! Didn’t mean to quote myself. Sorry!

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I am quite sure there is a page around here that fully explains all about SafeZone. In fact, probably a very useful tool.

But that link (which used to be in your post just above mine) within the virus definition update notice takes a customer to another page on an Avast server, not a third-party server. That’s quite different, in my view, – quite different from sending your customer off to some third-party website without giving them any warning that’s what is going to happen.

And I don’t care if that third-party website is the safest website on planet Earth, it’s just not right to treat one’s loyal customers in that way. That’s the Google style and that is what has me worried here.

EDIT: To reflect a change in the content of the post before mine.

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Ghostery found a lot of trackers on that page.

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It will only find trackers as there are many off-site links and data, some of them may set a cookie and that is what can be used to track (but in all honesty tracking cookies are no big deal).

Don’t allow 3rd party cookies (those not for the site you are visiting) and tracking cookies are unlikely to be effective. NoScript and RequestPolicy add-ons also prevent cross site scripting. You can also use CookieMonster add-on to manage cookies allowing only session cookies.

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So I shouldn’t have Ghostery set to block all trackers?

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again you are playing with programs you dont know if you need…and dont know to use

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I’ve had Ghostery for quite awhile now and so far I haven’t had any problems.

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The problem is that you don’t really understand what ghostery is telling you, e.g. you have to understand what trackers are (for the most part benign) and how they can effectively be dealt without ghostery.

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No, I don’t really understand how it works so should I stop using it?

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Stands to reason :slight_smile:

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If you don’t know how something works, how to use it or, what effects using it will have on you,
either find out the required information first or, avoid the product in the first place.
Using something with out knowing it’s effects can have detrimental effects.

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I just disabled it. Should I remove it?

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why keep anything on the computer that you dont need / dont understand / dont use…etc etc

but…it is your computer so you do as you want :wink:

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I had been using it and like I mentioned before I never had any problems with it. I thought most Firefox Extensions were safe to use. I might remove it later but for now I’ll just keep it disabled because I don’t want to restart my computer right now.

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You don’t have to restart your computer to remove a firefox add-on, it is essentially the same as disabling it, you just have to restart firefox not the computer.

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Guess I’ll go ahead and remove it.

Thank you.

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I’ve used Ghostery for quite some time, and it works well at blocking trackers. I don’t see why you need to remove it.