chrmod
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Tracking the trackers at Ghostery
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Comment · 6 months ago
Shouldn’t it be called Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x - LSW9x?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yet, Liquid Glass criticism scares people from updating their devices.
Comment · 5 years ago
Disclaimer: I work for Ghostery. I respond to protect my own name, not my employer.
Ghostery is not selling user data.
Let me point out a few facts:
All browser-side code is open source https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension and https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-dnr-extension.
Yes, Ghostery has a subscription based business model and that another reason to great care in protecting users privacy. Take a look on how we use blind tokens to authenticate subscribed users while searching on glowstery.com https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-search-extension (notice that even when you are a subscribed user there is no session cookie so queries cannot be linked).
Hope this sheds some light on the accusation. If that’s not enough, I do sincerely recommend uBlock Origin or AdGuard on Apple’s platform.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi. I'm one of the engineers that was working on Cliqz browsers. My focus was on the iOS one recently. All browser code was always open, you can find it on Github.
iOS - https://github.com/cliqz/user-agent-ios
Android - https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-android
Android (NextGen, was planned for release next month) - https://github.com/cliqz/daisy
Destkop - https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f
There is much more on our Github organizations: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/ https://github.com/cliqz/
We loved OSS at Cliqz, it was a part of the company culture and ultimate proof how private our products were.
Comment · 7 years ago
Check the post from previous day titled “Is Data Collection Evil?” https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil...
By now it should be obvious that no privacy oriented company (or in fact any other company) should treat user data as product.
Comment · 7 years ago
Asking HN: point another company describing why and how it does data collection at this extent.