Timeline for Alternative to Ghostery (tracker-blocker) add-on for Firefox?
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| Sep 16, 2020 at 8:36 | history | unprotected | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | ||
| Mar 21, 2016 at 22:41 | comment | added | Izzy | UPDATE: They're "actively looking into restoring" local settings and more (like the one-click-details) from v5.4, so they take our feedback seriously. No time-table yet, though, but I'll be kept up-to-date. While this is not the place for it, feel free to contact me in chat if you have specific suggestions (privacy-related, not new features), I'll try to carry things "upstream" (compact/limited/restricted, i.e. no promises ;) | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 16:11 | comment | added | Izzy | NOTE: I got in contact with the Ghostery team on the issue for a few days now. Just got the note they are "making some adjustments based on user feedback so some things will change based upon the thoughts of our users". I cannot say how far that goes – but for those of you willing to give them a chance it might be an option to downgrade to Ghostery-5 and wait how things turn out (which is what I'm currently doing on most of my FF installations). | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 13:59 | answer | added | Izzy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | Izzy | Also see on our sister-site for security topics: Is Ghostery safe to use? which additionally introduces Request Policy (Continued). | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 11:14 | comment | added | Izzy | PS: Here's a 2013 explanation on Disconnect.Me – and here an interesting discussion on Ghostery vs Disconnect.Me vs. uBlock which made me discover I can use a bunch of those tracker-killers via privacy lists in Adguard already (ui – that blocked 4 trackers right here, the same ones Ghostery had minus Gravatar ;) | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 10:28 | comment | added | Izzy | What makes the 6.x an absolute no-go for a "privacy protection tool" is that you now have to manage your configuration in their cloud (the local settings page is gone). See the comments at AMO on this (guess that's called a "shit storm" going on there). I've downgraded to 5.x while looking for either a change on Ghostery's end or an alternative where I have control. The only options named in this context seem to be Privacy Badger and Disconnect.Me; but I got no clear idea of how they can fully replace Ghostery (flexibility). | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 22:33 | history | protected | Tom | ||
| Feb 29, 2016 at 16:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:49 | history | edited | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:04 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | Just to add, One of the main things which make NoScript irritating and hard to use, is that it's all manual - it's not an "install it in a few clicks and done" thing like ghostery is, you have to configure what you want to allow yourself. And since you're mentioning uBlock, I think it has a tracker blocking list which you can enable (in the settings), not sure though, as I'm away from my computer. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | I don't really have time to write an answer now, but there's plenty of information about it online. Essentially, it lets you selectively enable / disable JavaScript for specific domains. Quite effective, since most trackers rely on JavaScript. Doesn't do some of the things in your list though. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 15:10 | comment | added | user1190 | @JonasCz Can you post an answer describing NoScript? I am interested in any solution really. I have heard of the add-on but have not used it myself. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 9:08 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | NoScript does most of these, however it's probably not really what you're looking for. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 5:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftRecs/status/702729546978758656 | ||
| Feb 24, 2016 at 23:09 | answer | added | sur | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 14:00 | history | edited | user1190 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 13:55 | history | edited | user1190 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 13:45 | history | asked | user1190 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |