On 07/16 09:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 09:59:54 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 07/16 08:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > --->8 > > > > Have you tried Ghostery? > > > > > > http://www.ghostery.com > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > no, due to this reason: > > > > "Ghostery is owned by Evidon, a company that collects and provides data to > > advertising companies." Source here: > > https://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actually-sells-data-> > > to-a-514417864 > > I hadn't read that; interesting. But note that it only says your data are > collected if you choose to "support" them, and apparently the data are > anonymised. Actually, when I looked just now I found that choice made for me > by default. I've now changed it - thanks for the pointer! > > I'll continue to use Ghostery for the moment, as it seems highly effective in > stopping all manner of intrusions. > > -- > Regards > Peter > >
Hi Peter, How far would you trust a company, which makes money from selling my/your data and is promoting a tool to prevent exactly this? Me: Not a single radius/wave length of a quantum... "Anonymised data" is a bad joke in post Orwell times... Cheers Meino
