fixanoid

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Progress Doughnut Chart with Chart.js and JQuery(fixanoid.github.io)
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by fixanoid 12y ago
New York City | Full-Time | Ghostery --------------------------------------- Ghostery appears on Hacker News quiet often and sometimes people here think that we should do things differently. Well, here we are, open for change if you join us
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Ghostery is hiring (NYC)
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by fixanoid 12y ago
The source is not just very readable, we make it publicly available for review. Here are some links: - AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/254748... - Chrome: https://ww
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by fixanoid 12y ago
Thank you, thats exactly what we do. =)
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by fixanoid 12y ago
lol
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by fixanoid 12y ago
Well, you are already using one of the best tools to keep your online footprint to a minimum, and it plainly asks you if you want to contribute data. This is an option and its off by default.
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by fixanoid 12y ago
Its explained in many places, such as our website, our FAQ, our support board, all the store listings, and finally in the extension itself. Ghostrank is not a tracking service of the user, its a way to measure the ecosystem of trackers in t
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by fixanoid 12y ago
No one is intentionally obscuring anything. If you have a better idea of how to explain what we do, by all means, please tell me and I shall make it happen. What happens is straight forward tho. Ghostery collects tracker data as you browse
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by fixanoid 12y ago
Well, the option is actually to turn in on. By default, Ghostery does not collect anything.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Heh, it may not sell it to ad agencies, but it sure sends data back to them. DNTMe is probably the worst choice to use for tracking protection, heres a study we have on the topic http://www.areweprivateyet.com
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Ughh, Ghostery isn't FLOSS, but that does not make the code invisible, many places where you can see it like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/vers... or ghostery.com/gho
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Thanks for asking relevant questions and I agree about the dissonance. Our teams job is to make sure they are minimized and we're working on fixing those things. Something to keep in mind tho is that our team is very small (4 people),
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by fixanoid 13y ago
As I said, we are adjusting to fit what our users think rather than what we preached. The site is 2 month old, and it reflects the new updated stance, and as I said earlier, the extensions will also be updated with pre-configured settings.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Your argument would be much better placed in our support forum. There, we do see much more opinions that are not the same, and the conclusions we draw are based on a bunch of inputs, but our support forum is probably the #1 place for issues
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Ghostery is available as a stand alone app for iOS, and has extensions for mobile Firefox and Opera.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Indeed, I am Ghostery Lord & Master =) -- one of the people who run, develop, and see to the success of it.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi gorhill, interesting study. Ghostery runs its own to see how effective privacy extensions are, here it is: http://www.areweprivateyet.com/ Ghostery database is not static either and we update it very often, if you feel
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Quesera, this is a good point I didn't cover. Ghostery does not call itself a tracker-blocker, our users do. This is an obvious oversight for most users, and its somethign that we will address, but at this time, Ghostery is designed to
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hehe, this makes me chuckle every time.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi quesera, thanks for asking. This is somewhat wrong: Ghostery, ever since version 1, had Ghostrank feature in it. It has always been an opt-in deal, the users who trust us may turn it on so provide us with data. For the first 4 years the
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Heh, Ghostery is not paid to whitelist anyone, I would know since I run the database for Ghostery. As to your question: NoScript does a different thing -- it concentrates on limiting known security issues by disabling Javscript. Tracking is
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Oh, hai Brian! Aren't you a former doubleclick-turn-righteous? And don't you also employ an ex-NSA dude? And no, we do not sell user data, just tracker data. Cheers!
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi sboering, how are you? Ghostery does what the user tells it to do. If you are seeing unblocked trackers, most likely, its because we've added new trackers and you didn't select "block" by default for the new trackers
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi troll! You are mistaken, betrad.com is in our database under Evidon.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Hi everyone! I'm one of the Ghostery devs. Ghostery started offering Click-to-Play (c2p) functionality a little while back for some of the most common elements. Its very useful and our users love it -- it simply and quickly answers the
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by fixanoid 13y ago
I think the wikipedia entry is pretty clear that its an opt-in program that requires the user to check an option in the setup or options of Ghostery. As far as other products, heres a handy chart we generate monthly to see which extension p
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Err, we've got a bug in Ghostery 5.0 for Disqus specifically that will be fixed in 5.1. Its related to click-2-play, so you may either disable it in Ghostery advanced options, or unblcok disqus on the site.
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by fixanoid 13y ago
Heres a more comprehensive article on the topic: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438 Ghostery would only send data back to Evidon if GhostRank option is enabled.
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Listen to RSS, and other sources on a run, or anywhere else with Auri(play.google.com)
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