[byoogle]

Lifehacker just did a comparison of popular privacy extensions and called Disconnect the best (over Ghostery and others): http://lifehacker.com/the-best-browser-extensions-that-prote...

[vidyesh]

Just for everyone to know.

byoogle is the mastermind behind Disconnect. :)

[nnnnni]

Yeah... You really should have put a disclaimer in there to let everyone know that you were advertising your own product.

That makes me never want to try the extension, no matter how good it may be.

[w1ntermute]

Yeah, that left a bad taste in my mouth. Just switched back to Ghostery.

[bti]

I don't think he wrote the Lifehacker article he linked to.

[nnnnni]

He was advertising it on HN, not LifeHacker, with that comment.

[Evbn]

He tried, but his product is so good that it scrubbed out the identifying information in his post.

(Kidding)

[D9u]

I prefer Conformal's Xombrero browser.

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero

[jimSc55]

I'm interested in Disconnect. Your FAQ says you don't record personal information like IP addresses but what about statistics? Ghostery, for example, has an opt-in option to submit anonymous stats on blocked content. Do you do the same?

[w1ntermute]

Just installed it. I'd heard of it before but never given it a shot. It's definitely got a nice UI.

[fakeer]

Okay, I have used both but didn't find Disconnect(good too) even near Ghostery or ABP(have used this too); ABP is bulky that's true..

Though I've been uneasy since Ghostery went closed source[1] but it's so easy to use and light on the browser. Disconnect is partially open source[2] too, and ABP is fully open source. I guess I might switch back to ABP if complains start for Ghostery.

[1]https://github.com/jonpierce/ghostery [2]https://github.com/disconnectme/

[Evbn]

How is browser JS closed source?

Without auditing, calling a server open source is meaningless.