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No, it’s why a vpn is important. Ghostery does absolutely nothing to prevent your subscriber details from being released.

VPN will not stop them from tracking you with cookies. So both are important.

You might want to look into who the owners of Ghostery are now. They've changed owners since starting out, and the newest ones seem pretty dodgy.

Ghostery is sort of shady. Try Self Destructing Cookies + uBlock + noScript