As good? DNTMe lists haven't been updated in more than a year at this point. Heres a reference we run monthly for comparisons:...
Hi! Ghostery for IE uses Crossrider framework that has also been used by unsavory parties in the past. That said, Ghostery for IE acts same way as...
To my knowledge, there are no known problems with this setup, that said, there is a priority challenge meaning that if Ghostery acts upon a...
I'll need to retest these conditions since this is very different setup, but AFAIK this is all routed through browser as well.
Both Firefox and Chrome route all Flash initiated traffic through them, so blocking extnesions do see this traffic and are able to monitor and...
Ok, so try disabling some of the performance options. If you disable click to play, it should be a bit faster as well.
Hi! As a dev of Ghostery I can tell you that Ghostery is no slower than any other addons you may be using. On top of that, for Firefox...
I may have not been too clear about uses of crossdomain.xml. First allow me to detail how crossodmain.xml is called upon: Lets say you visit...
Here are domains where there was a crossdomain.xml loaded from doubleclick.net: http://www.edmunds.com/ http://www.investopedia.com/...
This covers a different issue unrelated to tracking. The main complaint explained is that any resource from a site could be embeded if crossdomain...
Its the crossdomain.xml requests that were allowed through, at least for Ghostery. Not sure why others would let them slip. Excel spreadsheet...
Panopticlick is just an example of what fingerprinting is able to do. Its there to let the world know that trackers do not need to leave cookies...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmg5v7xba7o805b/analysis.december.2013.xls Is Ghostery executed aggregation results for the last AWPY execution run....
Oh, sorry for confusion, the spreadsheet linked is the original study (the one that's been done several years ago), not areweprivateyet latest...
Hi MrBrian, thanks for asking. We do (a) intentionally only if you hit the tracker directly, what it means is this: you specifically went to...
ABP easylist had acceptable ads disabled. The other configurations we kept it on so to compare exactly what you suggesting. I'm not sure what...
Hey gorhill, cudos on HTTPSB, I like it =) The source of AWPY is actually open, and you may take a look here:...
http://www.areweprivateyet.com/ is a recreation of the study on an ongoing basis. HTTPSB is not in the list for the same reason RequestPolicy isn't.
{SNIP - Unnecessary comment removed ~ TAS}. I've explained this several times to the poster, but hes not interested in understanding. Basically,...
Hi Pinga, I'm one of the few developers of Ghostery. I'll try to address your concerns in my reply. I'd say that a dose of paranoia is always...
Hi all! I'm one of the developers of Ghostery and wanted to chime in on the discussion. Unlike ABP or NoScript, Ghostery is a discovery and...
Boeren, thanks a lot, and yes we have resolved the issue already. New version that corrects this issue is available on AMO:...
Hi Boeren, thanks for reporting this issue. Would you be willing to run a modified version of Ghostery that I'll send you to help me debug the...
Hi all, I'm one of Ghostery developers. Thanks for posting about this issue, we're working on it. More information could be found on our...
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