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minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoGhostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.
minus-squareLvxferrelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoGhostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such. Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoOh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.
Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.
Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.
Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.