Talk:Ghostery/Archives/2015

Criticism Section

The entire criticism section is all based on one article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry/ . This article was used as reference in the Criticism section. It was republished by mashable and that story was used as a reference in the Criticism section. The article was translated into German and hosted at heise.de/tr and that story was used as a reference in the Criticism section. The article was the sole source of a lifehacker post, and that post was used as a reference in the Criticism section. The German magazine Chip wrote an article apparently based on either the original Technology Review article or the translated version, this was used as a reference in the Criticism section.

The most damning claim against Ghostery came in the lifehacker blog post that claims "[Ghostrank] sends that information back to advertisers so they can better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked". This claim is not expressed anywhere else, and is not supported by the source article.

Every source except for the original technology review article should be removed from this section, and the unsupported claims should be removed. Onlynone (talk) 14:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

As the Ghostshare is an opt in were the web user actively has to reveil this information is hardly a risk compared to the unsolicited beakons and trackers. Those are not "opt-in" but come as a wanted or unwanted collateral. Theking2 (talk) 14:05, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Profitability

What is their business model? how do they make money? 15:32, 2 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lingust (talk • contribs)

This question has been posted here for 3 years, and neither Fixanoid, nor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.197.242.187 (talk) 03:17, 18 May 2015 (UTC)