On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 10:59:21 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 07/16 10:48, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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 > > See also here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery > > cite: > "Some say that Ghostery, Inc. plays a dual role in the online > advertising industry. Ghostery blocks sites from gathering personal > information. But it does have an opt-in feature GhostRank that can be > checked to "support" them. GhostRank takes note of ads encountered and > blocked, and sends that information back to advertisers so they can > better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked.[22] Though Ghostery > claims that the data are anonymized, patterns of web page visits > cannot truly be anonymized.[23] Thus not everyone sees Evidon's > business model as conflict-free. "Evidon has a financial incentive to > encourage the program's adoption and discourage alternatives like Do > Not Track and cookie blocking as well as to maintain positive > relationships with intrusive advertising companies," says Jonathan > Mayer, a Stanford grad student and privacy advocate."
Hmm. Plenty to think about there. -- Regards Peter
