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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by aroch on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:45AM (#12872464)
Ghostery allows you to OPT IN to sending your browsing data [1], which may be sold as part of services offered by their parent company to improve ad ROI for their customers. They also tell you that they're collecting the request data [2].

I think knowingly sharing your data (with a positive affirmation) is significantly different than having your data collected and sold without your knowledge

[1] http://imgur.com/a/ugglB

[2] https://www.ghostery.com/support/faq/ghostery-add-on/What-da...

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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by qznc on Friday November 04, 2016 @10:50AM (#12872982)
The problem is not the selling of browsing data. WOT tells you openly that they do it.

The problem is that the data is not anonymized enough. The question is, if this is actually possible.

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