Hi Rich, Please do not see this as patronizing or worse, it is not meant that way.
Don't you think it would be appropriate to mention that - you do not know what Ghostery does, whether it is effective, no idea about their terms of service - in your post implying that what you do is good way to protect your privacy? A lot of people makes decisions about random stuff they read or hear in person and on-line. It makes whole lot of difference to the world not to spread misinformation about things we do not know or understand. And your car analogy is not valid. You are well informed about traffic safety and regulations, you had to pass driving test, etc..., I would hope. And - you actually verified you car - And you would report drunk drivers. So, driving around is not the lottery you try to imply. If driving around would be similar to the privacy online - your car would be smashed by 15 different trucks, cars, trains the second you would put the light on in your garage. Just calling spade a spade, Tomas On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 08:59 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > How do you know that Ghostery does good job in terms of privacy? > > Tomas, > > I assume they do. > > > Is that from the first hand experience watching traffic and asking > > Ghostery commercial outfit what they do with your browsing data? > > I have neither the expertise nor the time to dig deeply. There's only so > much we can do to protect ourselves, just like we cannot ensure that a > drunk > driver will not hit us as we drive through the city or on hilly, curvy > county roads in forested areas. > > There's no way of proving a negative and I apply this rule to using > ghostery > to filter ads, trackers, and others who want to learn everything about me. > > > Just asking - they are a company like any other, they do get to see your > > web destinations, they chose to disable blocking traffic they deem not > > intrusive or they think it would break your browsing experience. > > That's true, and they deserve to acquire revenues. Perhaps companies such > as > Ghostery sell information they collect in anonymous bundles that > characterize a defined group without identifying specific individuals. > That's a business model used in other areas of data, such as medical > information. Selling, or giving away, information on morbidities or > mortalities by postal zone or political boundaries can be highly useful and > has no need to have each individual identified. > > As a hypothetical example, perhaps Amazon decides where to place warehouses > based on the relative numbers and frequencies of deliveries to cities. They > need aggregated information for this, not individual data points. State > legislators draw district boundaries aound clusters of voters supporting > their party and minimizing the number of voters who tend to vote for the > other party. Aggregated data can be monetized better than can individual > data that the purchaser would need to aggregate themselves. > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
