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<blockquote data-quote="Lenny_Fox" data-source="post: 863792" data-attributes="member: 82776">I decided to give Ghostery a spin. Opting out of the data collection is possible (it is not that difficult to find in the user interface):[ATTACH=full]234327[/ATTACH]I upped the setting a bit. Enabled all categories to block except ESSENTIAL and AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYER (left) and Selected to &#039; Block new trackers added to Ghostery by default&#039; (right).&nbsp; To receive promotions and (coupon) discounts some website require tagmanager to work, so allowing ESSENTIALS is an obvious choice. I ran into a &#039;adblock wall&#039;&nbsp; (please disable your adblocker) when blocking AUDIO/VIDEO trackers that is the reason why I allowed this category also. This is just a quick tour, so your mileage may vary when you copy these settings.[ATTACH=full]234328[/ATTACH]Ghostery informs you how much trackers are blocked (on domain level) and modified (filter URL-parameters to anonymize ). When you choose &#039;Restrict Site&#039; everything is blocked for the current domain, selecting &#039;Trust Site&#039; allows all (disables blocking). So using Ghostery on default settings and selectively restricting websites is a good fall back option when the above &#039;upped&#039; settings blocks to much or trigger to many anti-adblock prompts (below left is Trusted, right is Restricted).[ATTACH=full]234332[/ATTACH]Ghostery heuristics seem to work well. It did find to two in-video bumper ads on Dutch websites which are not in Easylist (English + Dutch) filters (the unknown trackers left and right in picture below). What really impressed me was the fact that the second one (on the right)&nbsp; was a first party advertisement. Websites NOS.NL and NU.NL visited with the&nbsp; &#039;upped&#039;&nbsp; settings.[ATTACH=full]234331[/ATTACH]DISCLAIMER: this is not an Ghostery promotion, have already removed it again (using build-in Edge-chromium anti-tracking and build-in Opera adblock with Peter Low&#039;s list). Jut wanted to see whether heuristics really deliver what Ghostery promises (and it did).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lenny_Fox, post: 863792, member: 82776"] I decided to give Ghostery a spin. Opting out of the data collection is possible (it is not that difficult to find in the user interface): [ATTACH type="full" alt="1583410833002.png"]234327[/ATTACH] I upped the setting a bit. Enabled all categories to block except ESSENTIAL and AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYER (left) and Selected to ' Block new trackers added to Ghostery by default' (right). To receive promotions and (coupon) discounts some website require tagmanager to work, so allowing ESSENTIALS is an obvious choice. I ran into a 'adblock wall' (please disable your adblocker) when blocking AUDIO/VIDEO trackers that is the reason why I allowed this category also. This is just a quick tour, so your mileage may vary when you copy these settings. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1583411155382.png"]234328[/ATTACH] Ghostery informs you how much trackers are blocked (on domain level) and modified (filter URL-parameters to anonymize ). When you choose 'Restrict Site' everything is blocked for the current domain, selecting 'Trust Site' allows all (disables blocking). So using Ghostery on default settings and selectively restricting websites is a good fall back option when the above 'upped' settings blocks to much or trigger to many anti-adblock prompts (below left is Trusted, right is Restricted). [ATTACH type="full" alt="1583413095409.png"]234332[/ATTACH] Ghostery heuristics seem to work well. It did find to two in-video bumper ads on Dutch websites which are not in Easylist (English + Dutch) filters (the unknown trackers left and right in picture below). What really impressed me was the fact that the second one (on the right) was a first party advertisement. Websites NOS.NL and NU.NL visited with the 'upped' settings. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1583411799612.png"]234331[/ATTACH] DISCLAIMER: this is not an Ghostery promotion, have already removed it again (using build-in Edge-chromium anti-tracking and build-in Opera adblock with Peter Low's list). Jut wanted to see whether heuristics really deliver what Ghostery promises (and it did). [/QUOTE]

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