Your Ghostery data are being sold to the highest bidder...

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.

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

Thanks for info Polonus. :slight_smile:

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

Hi Damian:

Is Web Bug Detector still developed?

By notetaker — Last update Oct 8, 2008 — Installed 6,566 times.

Source

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

I see. Thanks