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		byoogle on Dec 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for ha... Ghostery's game seems to be tricking users into sending their data to Evidon. Going off the company's own numbers, something like 45% of Ghostery users send Evidon data (by comparison, only 2% of Firefox users share data through Telemetry).

out_there on Dec 11, 2013 [–]

Ghostery's default setting is to disable submitting data. You have to explicity opt-in. How is that tricking?

I was interested in your project but your smearing of 'competitors' with FUD is seriously disconcerting.

byoogle on Dec 12, 2013 | [–]

Congrats on your first post! [1]

1. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html

rand456 on Dec 14, 2013 | | [–]

Congrats on the non-answer.

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