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John Bauman January 28, 2013 20:32

Is ghostery sharing my website visits with others?

I use a plugin called extension called Collusion with Firefox 17.01.

Although I have GhostRank unchecked, Collusion shows breitbart.com is reporting to Ghostery.com and shows also that Ghostery.com is reporting to memegenerator.net. What gives?

I've visited Breitbart.com but who is memegenerator.net ?
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    Felix Shnir January 28, 2013 21:04
    Hi John, thanks for using Ghostery.

    Could you please explain exactly what you mean by ghostery.com reporting? If GhostRank is off, there wouldn't be any calls to Ghostery.com. Additionally, because of the nature of addons in Firefox, Collusion would not be able to see any type of requests that Ghostery makes, you would need a different tool such as Charles proxy or Fiddler proxy to be able to actually determine if Ghostery is calling GhostRank at all.

    The sites you list also appear to be public sites with no relation to us. If you would like us to help determine the issue, please list your addons first and I may be able to determine a connection.
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    Pete (Senior Communications Manager) January 28, 2013 21:23
    Hi John,

    Thanks for using Ghostery!

    Could you send a screenshot of what you are seeing? Ghostery does not have relationships with either of those URL's..

    more information would be appreciated.
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  • John Bauman January 28, 2013 22:55
    Hi Felix

    My active extensions are adblockPlus, Collusion, Ghostery, Lastpass and my active plugins are Shockwave Flash and Silverlight.

    I'm using a T-mobile teather on my Sys7 Desktop
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  • John Bauman January 28, 2013 23:00
    Pete,

    Capture2 is the map that collusion shows when ghostery.com is clicked
    and on the far left side is collusions textual info suggesting the
    possible tracking.

    When I click on the surrounding orbs linked to ghostery, collusion
    gives me the textual info captured in Capture1, Capture3 & Capture4
    respectfully.







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