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Ghostery is involved in Anti-P2P Activity??
Ghostery works fine, in connection with Firefox beta 4 and Windows 7 ultimate 64 bits. But whenever I go to a Ghostery web page it is being blocked by Peerblock with the message: "Detected AP2P on Amazon EC2 cloud" and I have to temporarily unblock the address in order to get site information, etc. To me, this greatly limits the usability of Ghostery and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth each time that I'm using the service. It would be great if you could take away my doubts on using the program, because as it is now, I consider it a "suspicious program with special instructions for use" and I cannot really recommend it to anyone.
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CHAMP
1hi oneinunity, thanks for using Ghostery.
Amazon EC2 is a cloud based server provided. So instead of having physical computers, we save money by purchasing service from Amazon's EC2 to host ghostery.com. We're not the only ones to do this: many companies and developers do this, some of those developers use the cloud servers for P2P purposes. Since this is a cloud infrastructure -- this means that all servers share at least physical presence like IP subnets and so on. Because of that, peerblock falsely reports our site as a AP2P service. We're not, so you may whitelist ghostery.com in PeerBlock.
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CHAMP
1hi oneinunity, thanks for using Ghostery.
Amazon EC2 is a cloud based server provided. So instead of having physical computers, we save money by purchasing service from Amazon's EC2 to host ghostery.com. We're not the only ones to do this: many companies and developers do this, some of those developers use the cloud servers for P2P purposes. Since this is a cloud infrastructure -- this means that all servers share at least physical presence like IP subnets and so on. Because of that, peerblock falsely reports our site as a AP2P service. We're not, so you may whitelist ghostery.com in PeerBlock.Comment -
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Thank you for the fast reply, but that still leaves me with the task to figure out in what way the EC2 cloud operates. For I think for now that it works in such a way that various elements of the cloud can be quickly switched on or off, and that would include ranges of ip addresses. If that is included in the way the cloud operates it would render all the ip addresses in the cloud potentially suspicious, as is the case with proxies as well. I have no problem with unblocking the Ghostery site but the large range of EC2 ip addresses is a different matter. Perhaps the Amazon EC2 cloud is just too contaminated to use with a service like Ghostery. For now the problem is still the same. If I want to use the Ghostery web sites I'll have to allow various ip addresses in the EC2 cloud temporarily and I will not whitelist them until I can be sure that at another time that same ip address is not in use by another customer.
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Well, I'm not a PeerBlock user, so at this point I would recommend that you take this question to PeerBlock community -- after all, this must a be common problem -- there are literally millions of Amazon EC2 users.
Additionally, Ghostery.com is merely a supplemental part of the extension -- during operation Ghostery addon, there are very few reasons why it would try going there. -
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