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by vidyesh 4798 days ago
Using Ghostery over AdBlock is good but I won't recommend using any of such tracker blocking extensions to anyone until I know they understand what it does.

At times these extensions do break websites as they block some vital scripts on the site. You have to manually unblock that to make sure the site runs fine on your browser.

I used Disconnect long time ago, but that time it literally broke all the tech blogs, as its blocking was very crude. The site now looks totally different and so do the screenshots, would give it a shot.

Oh and by the way I use Ghostery now.

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Breaking literally every tech blog would be way hard to do. :-)

We've gotten literally two bug reports about broken blogs of any sort in the last year (I just checked; and both are now fixed, btw), so I assume there aren't issues anymore. But if you experience any, let me know!

When the Firefox extension was released ( I remember it was released as a Chrome only solution at first ), I tried and all the famous tech blogs used all possible social buttons and TC had just started with Facebook comments, so for most sites, half the page loaded and other half was stuck.

The new UI looks great, defintely would give it a try. I actually have no problem with Ghostery but I like how Disconnect categories all the tracking.

Oh yeah, our original Firefox add-on was outsourced ... and I think kind of sucked. I learned not to do that (even though the devs were and are great).

Thanks a lot for the feedback on the new UI.