For the Ghostery users out there

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Nige_40

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I seen this about what Ghostery does and few others.

Check out the site > http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6


Hope this helps

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Nigel
 

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I believe it's an Opt-in feature of Ghostery, so by default it should not affect you unless you have enabled GhostRank, see more here:
http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Ghostery-extension-addon-sells-data-to-AD-industry
 
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Earth said:
I believe it's an Opt-in feature of Ghostery, so by default it should not affect you unless you have enabled GhostRank, see more here:
http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Ghostery-extension-addon-sells-data-to-AD-industry

Further enough Earth, but I just seen that post with the link and I just thought I'd provide.

I forgot that was on the site, to what you posted the link on.
 
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I use and like Ghostery and as stated above this is opt-in.
 

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A good question would be, Why to use GhostRank? Are there any benefits?
 

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Earth said:
A good question would be, Why to use GhostRank? Are there any benefits?

I'd like to second that...

I have Ghostery and have not enabled it.
 
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Nige_40

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Earth said:
A good question would be, Why to use GhostRank? Are there any benefits?


Well here is info about GhostRank so you can use it if you wish?

The only information that I know is:

If you put a checkmark in the box to help GhostRank.

Info I got of there site: What is Ghostrank?

Ghostrank is an option you can select if you would like to support Ghostery. When you select it, you allow Ghostery to track trackers as your browser traverses the internet. The anonymous information on the trackers is sent back to us, and we make reports out of it. It’s how we make money, it makes the internet more transparent for everyone, and it also makes for some very insightful blog posts on the Purple Box. You can learn more about Ghostrank and our parent company, Evidon,

Here is more about GhostRank and Purplebox view more> http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016022414

So Hope all that information helps

Kind Regards

Nigel
 
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