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Disconnect is a great open source alternative to Ghostery: https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/

by Ihmahr 12y ago

JumpCrisscross 12y ago
It also appears to lag Ghostery and Adblock in efficacy [1]. Granted, AreWePrivateYet is "presented by Ghostery." But Ghostery does not necessarily show up at the top of the list every month (see November 2013). AreWePrivateYet also uses a Stanford study's methodology [2] for its open-source model [3]. Update: Ghostery appears to outperform Disconnect even when both are put in "block all trackers" mode [4]. [1] http://www.areweprivateyet.com http://www.areweprivateyet.com [2] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-self-help-tools http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-... [3] https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet [4] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...
- byoogle 12y ago
  Ghostery’s results are (surprise) quite biased: http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privacy_extensions_are_most_effective_an/cbn6mgu http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privac...
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  - gorhill 12y ago
    My results are not biased: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-... Ghostery does a better job than Disconnect.
    - byoogle 12y ago
      Not true. You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings.
      - JumpCrisscross 12y ago
        > You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings. I believe this was appropriately accounted for. "Ghostery and Disconnect were set in their respective equivalent of 'Block all trackers' mode." https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Methodology-and-notes https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...
      - gorhill 12y ago
        For none of the extensions measured I had to go out of my way to set them in block all mode (mine is definitely still geeky compared to others -- it's more suited for the NoScript/RequestPolicy crowd). I just re-installed all of them, and now I find they are all easier than ever to set up at install time. I had to tamper with Disconnect defaults months ago when I installed it, just like Ghostery and ABP. I appreciate it's no longer required. If I adopt your arbitrary rule it would be pointless to do comparative measurements of privacy protecting power. I rather click once on a button at install time in a wizard (ABP, Ghostery) to be able to perform meaningful measurements than having to adopt a nonsensical methodology which would provide no useful information to end users. Rather than dismiss the results, I think you should reproduce it and make a diff to find out what Disconnect doesn't block, and see how it can be improved. Maybe I will work toward finding more about this in the next benchmark.
  - fixanoid 12y ago
    lol
pandatigox 12y ago
I thought Privacy Badger would be better, no?
mikelat 12y ago
In addition if you already have adblock, you can add the privacy list to your subscriptions: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt Also addons like requestpolicy and self destructing cookies are beneficial.

Disconnect is a great open source alternative to Ghostery: https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/

by Ihmahr 12y ago

Disconnect is a great open source alternative to Ghostery: https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/

It also appears to lag Ghostery and Adblock in efficacy [1]. Granted, AreWePrivateYet is "presented by Ghostery." But Ghostery does not necessarily show up at the top of the list every month (see November 2013). AreWePrivateYet also uses a Stanford study's methodology [2] for its open-source model [3]. Update: Ghostery appears to outperform Disconnect even when both are put in "block all trackers" mode [4]. [1] http://www.areweprivateyet.com http://www.areweprivateyet.com [2] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-self-help-tools http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-... [3] https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet [4] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...

byoogle 12y ago
Ghostery’s results are (surprise) quite biased: http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privacy_extensions_are_most_effective_an/cbn6mgu http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privac...
- deleted 12y ago
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- gorhill 12y ago
  My results are not biased: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-... Ghostery does a better job than Disconnect.
  - byoogle 12y ago
    Not true. You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings.
    - JumpCrisscross 12y ago
      > You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings. I believe this was appropriately accounted for. "Ghostery and Disconnect were set in their respective equivalent of 'Block all trackers' mode." https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Methodology-and-notes https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...
    - gorhill 12y ago
      For none of the extensions measured I had to go out of my way to set them in block all mode (mine is definitely still geeky compared to others -- it's more suited for the NoScript/RequestPolicy crowd). I just re-installed all of them, and now I find they are all easier than ever to set up at install time. I had to tamper with Disconnect defaults months ago when I installed it, just like Ghostery and ABP. I appreciate it's no longer required. If I adopt your arbitrary rule it would be pointless to do comparative measurements of privacy protecting power. I rather click once on a button at install time in a wizard (ABP, Ghostery) to be able to perform meaningful measurements than having to adopt a nonsensical methodology which would provide no useful information to end users. Rather than dismiss the results, I think you should reproduce it and make a diff to find out what Disconnect doesn't block, and see how it can be improved. Maybe I will work toward finding more about this in the next benchmark.
- fixanoid 12y ago
  lol

pandatigox 12y ago

I thought Privacy Badger would be better, no?

mikelat 12y ago

In addition if you already have adblock, you can add the privacy list to your subscriptions: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt Also addons like requestpolicy and self destructing cookies are beneficial.