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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ghostery is like Brave, they record and sell your browsing habbits. I stopped using them back in 2013.

Seems like we need to have another talk with the less terminally-online people about what is and isn’t actually good int he world of web browsing safety…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I believe that is outdated. Ghostery's ownership changed quite a few years ago, along with their business model. Read here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or you could just enable that filter in ublock origin. Will be faster and more robust as well.