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click170 on May 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Privacy Badger

First place I went to was "I am an online advertising / tracking company. How do I stop Privacy Badger from blocking me?".

If all it takes is MaliciousCompany.com from posting some text document in the right spot to get PrivacyBadget to whitelist the page, how is this any better than DNT?

Do they have a way of blacklisting domains that abuse this?

Edit: Also, I LOVE the idea behind this and installed it immediately to compliment ABP and Ghostery.

synchronise on May 24, 2014 [–]

Firstly, isn't this designed to completely replace Ghostery?

Secondly, doesn't Ghostery have privacy issues by sending your browsing history to a 3rd party?

pyroh on May 24, 2014 | [–]

It's optional, off by default, and is anonymized (apparently).

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