2014-04-25
▻http://hroy.eu/notes/avoid_ghostery-proprietary
I was reading an article by Lorrie Cranor on the MIT technology Review on how it’s difficult even for her to protect her privacy online.
I appreciate Lorrie Cranor’s work on privacy at Carnegie Mellon University. I have extensively cited her study of the length of privacy policies when I introduced ToS;DR.
However in this article, I was disappointed to see Ghostery mentioned. Ghostery is an browser extension supposed to help users against tracking and surveillance on the web. The main problem is that Ghostery is not released as Free Software1
Earlier on Twitter I quickly posted my frustration about this. People who promote web privacy should stop promoting Ghostery, as it’s proprietary. What’s their business model exactly?
In my earlier tweet I wrongly stated that the source code was not (...)