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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by lmm on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:33AM (#5969409)
Ghostery has recently been found to be selling user data. ISTR there was a similar incident with AdBlock? I don't want to have to trust some random extension author to have got these things right.
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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by gabemart on Monday July 01, 2013 @09:47AM (#5970545)
I hadn't heard about Ghostery selling data. I read about the story at Mashable [1].

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/06/17/ad-blocker-helps-ad-industry/

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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by sp332 on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:40AM (#5970172)
AdBlock Plus started allowing some advertising they deemed "non-intrusive". This was a default setting and easily toggled in the settings, but there was still a big backlash.
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