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minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such. Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.
Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.
Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.