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Political Factoid
Big Brother is watching you
Completely unregulated, unrestrated
market capitalism, a hackers paradise
Tracked by Ghostery*
(as of 2018-Aug-18)
- Advertising trackers = 1750
- Site analytic trackers = 629
- Customer interaction trackers = 277
- Social Media trackers = 100
- Essential tackers** = 64
- Audio/Video Player trackers = 60
- Adult Advertising trackers = 23
- Comment trackers = 10
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Ghostery is privacy browser extension for
Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge.
Ghostery was previously owned by Evidon,
but since 2017 is owned by the German
company Cliqz International GmbH.
These are companies that collect and
provide data to advertising companies.
a.k.a. Catch-22?
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This group of trackers appears to have paid
Ghostery, the privacy-protection software vendor
to not block them.
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