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Re:Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry by valarauca1 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:53PM (#7811769)
When I'm attempting to create no footprint (which is impossible I know), making any footprint period is annoying. And knowing a tool that is implemented and advertised to prevent making said footprint is just making one somewhere else is misleading.
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Re:Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry by sp332 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:56PM (#7811789)
I'm not sure how TR got "GhostRank" enabled without the user seeing the prompt, because every time I've installed Ghostery, it's been an opt-in checkbox right at the beginning of setup.
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Re:Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry by fyrabanks on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:45PM (#7812375)
It's opt-in/disabled by default. What's the problem?
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Re:Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry by Touche on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:51PM (#7812409)
It exists.
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Re:Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry by fixanoid on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:51PM (#7814219)
Well, you are already using one of the best tools to keep your online footprint to a minimum, and it plainly asks you if you want to contribute data. This is an option and its off by default.
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