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Re:How Does Facebook Know What's In My Amazon Shopping Cart? on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @03:57AM (#6962628)
Standard adblock would be adblock plus which is tied with advertisers through its infamous "acceptable ads" feature. see: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-... https://medium.com/surveillance-state/cd2cb53bcaba http://www.infowars.com/google-reportedly-paid-adblock-plus-... http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/adblock-plus-accused-of-sha...

Ghostery works for the advertisement industry by building profile of blocked ads to allow them to tweak the ads so you don't want to block them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blo...