Ask HN: Privacy Concerns with using Ghostery

[jhjhjhjhj]

I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5623860 yesterday, where many people suggested using Ghostery extension.

But if I add Ghostery, it says: 1. It can access your data on all websites. 2. It can access your tabs and browsing activity.

So, isn't using Ghostery even bigger threat to privacy.

[fixanoid]

I've answered this recently on reddit, heres the relevant link and comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Irony/comments/1ci4ri/went_to_check_...

Hardly anything Ghostery does. The rules are defined by Google and the wording is unfortunate but largely correct: any extension that needs access to tabs, content scripts, and requests/responses will get the same message. So, basically, any extensions for content blocking will ask for these including Adblock/ABP+, Script no, whatever.