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@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Of course, it depends on how you setup uBlock Origin: The more you block the bet
On top of the part actively protecting privacy like anti-tracking and content blocking, there are other features to clear cookies from tracker domains to keep a "clean slate", etc. (A bit like what [Safari](https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/) and [Firefox](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Privacy/Redirect_tracking_protection) have implemented). For example, **Ghostery clears cookies from tracking domains that you did not visit as first parties**(!) after an hour or so, hardening the protection further. [^1]
### "Ghostery does not have much customization or fine-grained controls (dynamic filtering, medium mode, element picker etc.)."
This is an interesting point and I think it is worst pointing out that Ghostery is aiming at providing the best privacy protection out-of-the-box. This also means that IMO there is less of a need for dynamic filtering and medium mode, which are (I think), mostly needed because of the limitations of content blocking (e.g. not all requests can be blocked otherwise websites are broken, so there needs to be a way to fine-tune the behavior manually).
### Ghostery does not have much customization or fine-grained controls (dynamic filtering, medium mode, element picker etc.).
This is an interesting point and I think it is worst pointing out that Ghostery is aiming at providing the best privacy protection out-of-the-box. This also means that there is less of a need for dynamic filtering and medium mode, which are mostly needed because of the limitations of content blocking (e.g. not all requests can be blocked otherwise websites are broken, so there needs to be a way to fine-tune the behavior manually).
On the other hand, in Ghostery we introduced (alongside the traditional content blocker or adblocker), an [anti-tracking feature](https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-blocking-trackers.html) which is not based on blocklists, and is able to remove unsafe datapoints (e.g. fingerprints, third-party cookies, unique identifiers, etc.) from requests without having to block them, drastically reducing breakage.