[dexterdog]

And ghostery

[eps]

Doesn't Ghostery too make money from selling their hoarded user data to the very same advertisers and marketers?

EDIT: Yep, it does - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model

[miles]

"Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—some may not realize that it feeds data to the ad industry."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/516156/a-popular-ad-block...

[andimm]

Which also has an interesting opt-in Business Model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model

[majewsky]

Ghostery also has some tracking built-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism

[karrotwaltz]

I tried to switch to the open source Disconnect when I heard Ghostery was acquired by an ad company, but it wasn't on Ghostery's level.

The redirect / social button blocker with the "allow once" option is really pleasant.

[TorKlingberg]

Ghostery keeps trying to steal my attention with annoying popups.