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New York City | Full-Time | Ghostery --------------------------------------- Ghostery appears on Hacker News quiet often and sometimes people here think that we should do things di…

Ghostery appears on Hacker News quiet often and sometimes people here think that we should do things differently. Well, here we are, open for change if you join us -- you, a senior…

The source is not just very readable, we make it publicly available for review. Here are some links: - AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/254748... - Chrome…

Thank you, thats exactly what we do. =)

lol

Well, you are already using one of the best tools to keep your online footprint to a minimum, and it plainly asks you if you want to contribute data. This is an option and its off …

Its explained in many places, such as our website, our FAQ, our support board, all the store listings, and finally in the extension itself. Ghostrank is not a tracking service of t…

No one is intentionally obscuring anything. If you have a better idea of how to explain what we do, by all means, please tell me and I shall make it happen. What happens is straigh…

Well, the option is actually to turn in on. By default, Ghostery does not collect anything.

Heh, it may not sell it to ad agencies, but it sure sends data back to them. DNTMe is probably the worst choice to use for tracking protection, heres a study we have on the topic h…

Ughh, Ghostery isn't FLOSS, but that does not make the code invisible, many places where you can see it like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/vers... or gho…

Thanks for asking relevant questions and I agree about the dissonance. Our teams job is to make sure they are minimized and we're working on fixing those things. Something to keep …

As I said, we are adjusting to fit what our users think rather than what we preached. The site is 2 month old, and it reflects the new updated stance, and as I said earlier, the ex…

Your argument would be much better placed in our support forum. There, we do see much more opinions that are not the same, and the conclusions we draw are based on a bunch of input…

Ghostery is available as a stand alone app for iOS, and has extensions for mobile Firefox and Opera.

Indeed, I am Ghostery Lord & Master =) -- one of the people who run, develop, and see to the success of it.

Hi gorhill, interesting study. Ghostery runs its own to see how effective privacy extensions are, here it is: http://www.areweprivateyet.com/ Ghostery database is not static either…

Quesera, this is a good point I didn't cover. Ghostery does not call itself a tracker-blocker, our users do. This is an obvious oversight for most users, and its somethign that we …

Hehe, this makes me chuckle every time.

Hi quesera, thanks for asking. This is somewhat wrong: Ghostery, ever since version 1, had Ghostrank feature in it. It has always been an opt-in deal, the users who trust us may tu…

Heh, Ghostery is not paid to whitelist anyone, I would know since I run the database for Ghostery. As to your question: NoScript does a different thing -- it concentrates on limiti…

Oh, hai Brian! Aren't you a former doubleclick-turn-righteous? And don't you also employ an ex-NSA dude? And no, we do not sell user data, just tracker data. Cheers!

Hi sboering, how are you? Ghostery does what the user tells it to do. If you are seeing unblocked trackers, most likely, its because we've added new trackers and you didn't select …