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To: MrEdd
Can I answer your question with a question? How many fingers and toes do you have?

IMHO, Ghostery does a terrific job of tracking blocking.

But not everybody agrees with me.

10 posted on 04/05/2015 11:40:35 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: upchuck

My two cents worth, Ghostery.


12 posted on 04/05/2015 12:06:34 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: upchuck
IMHO, Ghostery does a terrific job of tracking blocking.

It does, but Ghostery only blocks tracking programs and scripts. Those scripts can remain latent in a browser session and "follow" you.

The "Do Not Track" option in most modern browsers is a flag provided to a web provider that essentially asks that they not pay attention your ingress and egress with their site. It's a gentleman's agreement, nothing more. There's nothing to stop a site operator from tracking your IP ingress and egress from their site. They know from where you came and to where you're going when you leave their site. Do not track just "asks" that they not catalog your information. It does not need to be heeded.

26 posted on 04/06/2015 4:29:26 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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