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Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon.

I think this is more heat than light. The "Ghost Rank" functionality, whereby anonymous usage data is uploaded to Evidon is opt-in with recent versions of Ghostery, and they have to pay for the engineers that created the tool and keep it up to date somehow...

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I switched to disconnect.me a while back because I have a cynical view of a tracker blocker tracking people, even if there is the option to disable it.

And for similar reasons I dropped AdBlock when they decided to let companies pay to be unblocked.

RequestPolicy FTW - unlike those other plugins, it is a whitelisting system so nobody slips through just because they are new. It is also site-specific, so if you want to load up disqus from one site but not any others, you can.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

Downside? You have to be more involved by manually whitelisting the necessary sites like CDNs. I've been using it for years and it doesn't bother me, although I'd say 5% of the time I'll just give up rather than work through a list of 10+ cross-site references.

Thank you! I much prefer whitelisting, but had not known about this one.

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