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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by cdman on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @05:35AM (#6716964)
Don't use Ghostery because they're tracking you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism

Try disconnect.me or blacklisting the sites directly from the hosts file.

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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by fixanoid on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:50AM (#6718872)
I think the wikipedia entry is pretty clear that its an opt-in program that requires the user to check an option in the setup or options of Ghostery.

As far as other products, heres a handy chart we generate monthly to see which extension protects better: http://www.areweprivateyet.com/

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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by marios on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @05:58AM (#6717031)
I kept using ghostery because I didn't know of any alternative and sometimes I can't install adsuck. (which is is better than a huge hosts file. An oversized hosts file can have a negative impact on DNS and overall network responsiveness).

Thanks for disconnect.me, I'll give it a shot :)

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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by smcnally on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @12:16AM (#6723502)
> An oversized hosts file can have a negative impact on DNS and overall network responsiveness

how many hosts entries would you say it is before the negative impact is significant? 20? 100?

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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by Semaphor on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @06:48AM (#6717192)
disconnect.me is also FOSS.
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Re: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password... by mikegriff on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @09:05AM (#6717863)
Thanks for the heads up on this. I thought I had read something about that in the past, but I couldn't remember what it was exactly.

Going to go have a look at disconnect.me now.

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