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Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by byoogle on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @03:58AM (#5898099)
I just mentioned Disconnect, but I make Disconnect. :-)

You should try the new Disconnect (Disconnect 2) which has a lot more features than Ghostery and is even rated higher by users than Ghostery is. We just launched Safari and Opera versions today (and are also available on Chrome and Firefox).

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by JonnieCache on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:01AM (#5898373)
Hello! Love the tool. Dropped ghostery for it a while ago.

One criticism: It's not clear from the popup what the numbers mean. Are they counting scripts loaded, or scripts blocked? The same for the colouring. Are coloured icons blocked, and greyed ones allowed through, or vice-versa? And of course the tickboxes.

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by byoogle on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:17AM (#5898412)
Thanks! Good feedback.

The numbers indicate requests (as in HTTP requests) attempted by the tracking companies. Green (or checked) indicates the requests were blocked. Gray (or unchecked) indicates they were allowed.

We'll beef up the help doc (https://disconnect.me/d2/help) to clarify.

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by qwertzlcoatl on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @07:40AM (#5898587)
Ghostery has the option to block all trackers at once in a big list with 1490 trackers. Disconnect 2 doesn't provide this option, does that mean that all the known trackers are blocked by default?

Some pages I visit show 100+ requests but when I enter the add-on it only shows 2 advertising attempts and maybe 1 analytics request. Where do these other hundred requests come from and were they effectively blocked from communicating with its third-party provider?

Disconnect 2 basically replaces HTTPS Everywhere, which I find nice.

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by byoogle on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @07:56AM (#5898632)
We saved you a click. :-) Disconnect blocks (2,000+ tracking sites) by default.

The number of requests in the dropdown menu should add up to the number of requests in the toolbar counter (we do group requests by company, which Ghostery doesn't do, so you will see less rows in Disconnect's UI if that's what you mean). Do you have a site where the two aren't equal?

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by qwertzlcoatl on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @09:34AM (#5905421)
The only thing I would like to do is block certain trackers manually. For example "geoplugin.com" is enabled by default in Disconnect while I can block it manually in Ghostery. And I became used to not seeing google +1's and tumblr share buttons etc. Isn't there the possibilty to block them even before I visit a page? Right now I need to disable them via the disconnect UI and the page needs to reload.
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by jbk on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @07:22AM (#5898545)
Yep. This is exactly what is limiting me from recommending the tool to (non-geeky) friends, compared to Ghostery...
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by nly on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @09:09AM (#5898907)
Please consider accepting payments in Bitcoin!

Also, does "Wi-fi security" conflict with HTTPS Everywhere? The features seem to be analogous.

Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by rs232 on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @04:13AM (#5898126)
Any plans to accept Bitcoin donations?
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by byoogle on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @04:20AM (#5898139)
Yeah, I think later this week. (We actually had a Coinbase implementation before we launched, which we decided to pull last minute because we thought there was a little too much Bitcoin and Coinbase uncertainty at the time.)
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by binxbolling on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @12:27PM (#5900241)
It's weird to me that entering $0 then seemingly still requires my credit card or PayPal.
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by Semaphor on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @04:50AM (#5898213)
And thanks for it! It's blocking is great and the interface is by far the most userfriendly of the bunch :) I switched to it when it was mentioned on HN a few months ago.
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by footoverhand on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:35AM (#5899407)
Do you have any plans to support Seamonkey?
Re:A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry by Nux on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @05:04AM (#5898247)
Good man! I shall try it ASAP.