Re: [LUG] VPN

[jah <jah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/09/15 08:22, Neil Winchurst wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:23:02 +0000
mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> You really shouldn't be doing that. You guys know that it's owned by
> an ad company right?
> 
> http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/
> 
> Cheers
> 

Well, I didn't know that. What do others on the list think?

Neil

EFF's Privacy Badger [1] is a good alternative. Its developer gave a presentation about it [2] at the CCC camp this year. From its FAQ:

"Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge, or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking. Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with."

[1]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
[2]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6733-privacy_badger.html

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