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Is Ghostery itself a tracker? Sending Queries for new trackerlists or such?
I saw a question like "add also new trackers" - and i thought how would ghostery share the information about new trackers, cookies, widgets and such, without sending an update-query home with my IP# enclosed?
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Thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
We update the library and ghostery reaches home for updates on a schedule.. not the opposite way. We don't have any access to your local set-up at all. -
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BTW: I see that this forum (your forum) for instance sends my data to facebook. Or would have sent - of course i am using different blockers to prevent this from happening.
I really like (!!) that there are addons like yours. And i am sad, that even you seem to be unable to withstand the broad temptations and possibilities to spy on us or in your case to let others spy on us. :-(-
We don't control this forum. It's a 3rd party vendor.. We are working on a new solution that will have 0 trackers. It should be up and running this summer.
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Yes, i know, that you cannot contact my installation, that this has to be initiated by my installation. Of course. We know this as the "normal" update-mechanism spy software uses to track us. How often i am online, which IP# i have at which time, what plugins i have installed, ...
So in this regard: Sorry for restating my question:
How often does ghostery contact "home" and what information is transported from my computer while doing that, how long do you save this data?
If you have Ghostrank ON.. you send us info about the trackers you see and where you see it. ( https://purplebox.ghostery.com/post/1... ).. I"m not sure of the total retention of that data.. I'll check and update.