Ad-blocker Ghostery just went open-source and has a new business model

[spaceoctopus]

In privacy-focused, anti-establishment corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred. It signals that you not only have nothing to hide, but also welcome the rest of the world to help make your project better. For Ghostery though, the company that makes Edward Snowden’s recomended ad-blocker, publishing all its code on GitHub Thursday also means clearing up some confusion about its past.

 

[HarborFront]

Now, comparing Ghostery and Privacy Badger both of which open source.

Ghostery has definite advantages over PB like

1) uses AI and blocklist whilst PB uses algorithms for blocking
2) it's easier to use to start with ie either deny all/allow all
3) better GUI display

Note:- If you block ALL cookies (with exceptions) you can don't use PB

 

[Xtwillight]

Anti-tracking extension Ghostery Heard Cliqz.
Cliqz, a company majority owned by the Burda publishing house
Who is not there comes to think?

 

[HarborFront]

Anti-tracking extension Ghostery Heard Cliqz.
Cliqz, a company majority owned by the Burda publishing house
Who is not there comes to think?

Yes, now they are open source with 2 different parts to their business model so whatever they are doing behind the back of users will come to light and hurt their reputation. I don't think they want that to happen now

 

[Xtwillight]

I have a different view,
Burda .. Springer verlag and other publishing houses
are interested in the data of the users.

With more knowledge on how to block certain advertisements
You can also build advertisements that blockages
to stop.

 

[Azure]

You need to personally opt-in Ghostery to send them data.

 

[Xtwillight]

and does it make it better?
if malware programmer an antivirus program
I would not be happy about programming

 

[Azure]

and does it make it better?
if malware programmer an antivirus program
I would not be happy about programming

Is it better for a whitehat hacker to discover vulnerabilities rather than blackhat hacker?

 

[Xtwillight]

• Everybody his opinion !
  It's about trust, Ghostery gambled away.

• It's about trust,
  Burda (Cliqz-Ghostery) .. Springer verlag and other publishers
  are interested in the data of the users.

• Why should a big publishing house
  the privacy of people on the Internet want to protect
  if they do not have an advantage ..
  think about it
  Hubert Burda Media - Wikipedia

• Effective Date: May 8, 2017
  Browser Extension End-User License Agreement - Ghostery

• Firefox Add-on Cliqz
  Privacy-by-Design is intended to protect the privacy of users. The Cliqz privacy policy contains a lot of rambling about privacy, but also the following:
  CLIQZ sends your keystrokes to our servers so that you can suggest sites as you type in the browser line (address bar, URL line). This keystroke data is not saved.

• In addition, CLIQZ collects and stores on its servers which website suggestions users select in the CLIQZ for Firefox drop-down menu and the type of suggestions (based on CLIQZ's Firefox history, Firefox bookmarks or search technology). In addition, CLIQZ records and stores the respective search terms or address entries.

• Alternatives to Ghostery
• uBlock Origin
• NoScript
• Brave browser
• and other

 

[Vasudev]

Its been 2 years after I ditched Ghostery for uBO. uBO just works fine w/o any lags.

 

[Xtwillight]

Vasudev
prism-break.org
Windows - Platforms - PRISM Break

 

[frogboy]

Its been 2 years after I ditched Ghostery for uBO. uBO just works fine w/o any lags.

Agreed 100% here also.

 

[tonibalas]

The thing about privacy is that all companies collect some data.For me the real question is how much of your data you want to give so you can use something useful for free
Brave is a very good solution and I wish more people will be involved so the browser will be updated more frequently

 

[Vasudev]

Vasudev
prism-break.org
Windows - Platforms - PRISM Break

I have HTTPS EW,Cookie AD and FF's in-built Disconnect web ext for complete privacy.

 

[Windows Defender Shill]

I'm a sucker for new browsers, I'll give Cliqz a spin when I get bored with Brave again. (Brave is the one browser that keeps roping me back in)

*I use Ghostery with opt out sharing selected in Edge.

 

[Azure]

You need to personally opt-in Ghostery to send them data.

Okay, I check with the latest version on Chrome. It looks like this was changed.

 

[Quassar]

i dont like Ghostery you use it because you dont wanna be tracked and colected your sensitive date by other web/script while ghoster colect it too and sell to other company ...

Better stay with manual block and use umatrx