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Good question. I tried Priv3 today, but it seems to be the subset of Ghostery.

BTW, it is necessary to use ABP, when I have Ghostery installed? (I don't intent to block ads, unless they actively track me, like Adsense, etc.)

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>I don't intent to block ads

May I ask why? I can understand whitelisting domains who you regularly visit and use (and thus want to support with ad income) and whom you trust to serve safe and unobtrusive ads , but I would be going insane without ABP on the web. It's excruciating to use a browser without ABP installed. Imagine trying to hold a conversation with someone while at least half a dozen of people are screaming nonsense at you - that's how it feels to browse the web with ads to me.

Maybe it' the consumer in me, but I feel responsible to view the ads on websites I frequent. If I see something I may like to purchase, then I'd rather the middleman be a website I frequent, so I can show support. May be trained behavior, but it is why I dont use ABP.

I hear people say this, but personally I've never used any ad block and I nearly never see ads. Unless something weird happens like that one add that seemed to reach up into another one, I really never notice them.

I could go without Adblock, but I absolutely could not use the web without Flashblock.

If you run advertisements that automatically play sounds, you ought to be shot and dumped in a river.

Yes, it is necessary. Think of Ghostery as filling the role of a black-list and ABP filling the role of a grey-list (and sometimes white-list).

AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs

Are you sure?

You can switch blocking off, and that is, for some reason I don't understand, the default. Ghostery runs a simple wizard the first time you restart the browser after installing it where it asks you if you want to turn on blocking or not.

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