From bce2680036cfdf0bd8a334d34b4e79227d98416e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yokoffing Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 16:46:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Ghostery (markdown) --- Ghostery.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Ghostery.md b/Ghostery.md index 5714116..a5f4963 100644 --- a/Ghostery.md +++ b/Ghostery.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ [![Ghostery](https://www.ghostery.com/wp-content/themes/ghostery/images/ghostery_logo_black.svg)](https://www.ghostery.com) --- -Last updated: 8 August 2020 [download](https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension#downloads) +Last updated: 8 August 2020 | [download](https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension#downloads) Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Detailing the anti-tracking use case a bit more, these anonymous statistics are Again, all of this can be turned ON or OFF at any time from settings, but we make sure that **there is no negative privacy side-effect if you don't**. In fact, this helps protect the privacy of users (e.g. **the anti-tracking system described above is made more powerful thanks to statistics contributed by users**). [^15] -### I'm not really comfortable with the supposedly anonymous data being collected from user +### I'm not really comfortable with the supposedly anonymous data being collected. Totally fair, not everyone has to be. This is also a tricky matter for us because we have to get some data in order to build a competitive search engine [1]. But we really do not want to collect any personal information at all about users. For this reason, we spent years coming up with a system to achieve this goal: Human Web. We wrote at length about its implementation on our tech blog [2] as well as the network anonymization layer that we built to ensure anonymity at the network level [3] (HPN). [^13] ## Rewards Program