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83a | 10 years ago

i'm using https://www.requestpolicy.com/ (ghostery seems to phone home, requestpolicy not (afaik))

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acheron|10 years ago

There's an opt-in option in Ghostery that reports usage info, but as far as I know it doesn't "phone home" if you don't opt in to that.

StavrosK|10 years ago

Yeah, seconded, AFAIK it doesn't phone home if you disable that.

benedikt|10 years ago

What about Disconnect or Lightbeam? (as alternatives to Ghostery)

Dirlewanger|10 years ago

Use Disconnect. More or less the same as Ghostery, minus the tracking you part. The fact that Ghostery tracks whether or not one sends data back to them shows that they have to be keeping some sort of tracking id for your machine.

quadrangle|10 years ago

uBlock has advanced features that function like request policy (effectively can replace it, though RP is still a good plugin)