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Hi Amadou, you should really post on our support board to get understanding or where Ghostery UI is going.

Precisely. GhostRank collects and repackages tracker information on the web, not individual browsing habits.

As the author of that post 3 years ago, nothing has changed: - Ghostery does not collect user info, just tracker info. - Evidon sells reports like this: http://evidon.com/trackermap and not actual data sets.

Here are some more details on our blog: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

Nick, this isn't something new that Ghostery started doing this has been in the addon since day 1, even before Evidon purchased Ghostery. There are multiple articles "exposing" this find, and its not something we've been hiding. The feature is opt in

As far as the use of data, some of the products Evidon is now making are so new that the GhostRank information panel has not needed an update. We'll be modifying the wording to be clearer, but just to make sure, we never collect or use PII info, just the trackers information to use in products such as this: http://www.evidon.com/trackermap

In any case, here is a good post we've just put up on our blog that answers these concerns: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

I've answered this recently on reddit, heres the relevant link and comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Irony/comments/1ci4ri/went_to_check_...

Hardly anything Ghostery does. The rules are defined by Google and the wording is unfortunate but largely correct: any extension that needs access to tabs, content scripts, and requests/responses will get the same message. So, basically, any extensions for content blocking will ask for these including Adblock/ABP+, Script no, whatever.

Well, it would be that if Ghostery didn't offer you choice. Also, the data collected is about trackers and not the user.

Note: Ghostery dev here.

Ughh, Ghostery is available for iOS as well: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ghostery/id472789016