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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by miqkt on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:23PM (#17361857)
Ghostery also had an incident [1] last month where they exposed e-mail addresses of some users, which I guess adds further doubt to their reliability.

[1]: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-email-i...

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by black_puppydog on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:37AM (#17362926)
wait, why do they need users' emails?
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by tinus_hn on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:38AM (#17363206)
If you want, you can create an account to ‘sync your ghostery settings’. The username of the account is your email address.

The exposure happened because they sent a mail with a lot of people in the CC: field. Amateurish but it happens. The irony is that the mail was to inform you of the privacy changes due to GDPR.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Cthulhu_ on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:10AM (#17363062)
They don't, that's the thing; they wanted to monetize their service, and selling e-mail addresses and user data is one way to do that.
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