Security News Your browsing history may have been sold already!

jamescv7

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A usual tactic already in order to gain revenue and distribute the personal information elsewhere. Majority of percentage income goes on advertisement in order to maintain the software development and without it, then the operation may halt.

Which why spams occur on our email providers everyday because of that.

As mentioned always, do not use any product nor internet to avoid exposing such information.
 

Azure

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For those that are using Adguard and are concern about WoT

https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?threads/does-disabling-wot-stops-them-from-selling-my-data.15708/
"Wow, thanks for sharing this article. I'd like to read WOT answer too.
Anyway, in case of Adguard's extension, no data is handed to WOT.
We pay for their websites reputation data with cash, not with users' data.
Requests are made to our own server - rating.adguard.com.".


Official Statement
https://blog.adguard.com/en/official-statement-on-web-of-trust-case/
 

SHvFl

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Nov 19, 2014
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For those that are using Adguard and are concern about WoT

https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?threads/does-disabling-wot-stops-them-from-selling-my-data.15708/
"Wow, thanks for sharing this article. I'd like to read WOT answer too.
Anyway, in case of Adguard's extension, no data is handed to WOT.
We pay for their websites reputation data with cash, not with users' data.
Requests are made to our own server - rating.adguard.com.".


Official Statement
https://blog.adguard.com/en/official-statement-on-web-of-trust-case/
This is great. Thanks mate.
 

Entreri

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May 25, 2015
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Ghostery had the option, default was tracking you.

I only ever used a couple of extensions on one browser/Firefox and I got rid of all extensions years ago, including my AV's. A lot of people have numerous extensions on their browser.

Bad enough that Google, MSFT and governmints are tracking you, now everybody knows what you are doing.
 

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