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On 07/16 09:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 09:59:54 tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> > On 07/16 08:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > Have you tried Ghostery? |
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> > > |
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> > > http://www.ghostery.com |
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> > Hi Peter, |
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> > no, due to this reason: |
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> > "Ghostery is owned by Evidon, a company that collects and provides data to |
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> > advertising companies." Source here: |
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> > https://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actually-sells-data-> to-a-514417864 |
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> I hadn't read that; interesting. But note that it only says your data are |
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> collected if you choose to "support" them, and apparently the data are |
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> anonymised. Actually, when I looked just now I found that choice made for me |
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> by default. I've now changed it - thanks for the pointer! |
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> I'll continue to use Ghostery for the moment, as it seems highly effective in |
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> stopping all manner of intrusions. |
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> -- |
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> Regards |
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> Peter |
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Hi Peter, |
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How far would you trust a company, which makes money from selling |
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my/your data and is promoting a tool to prevent exactly this? |
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Me: Not a single radius/wave length of a quantum... |
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"Anonymised data" is a bad joke in post Orwell times... |
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Cheers |
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Meino |
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