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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 17 2017, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-bloodhound dept.

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/

We are overjoyed to announce that the Ghostery extension and mobile browsers have been acquired by Cliqz, a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media that builds ground-breaking browser technologies to make the internet more private and easier to use.  Cliqz's marquee product is its desktop browser, whose built-in quick search and anti-tracking features empower users to quickly and safely explore the internet without sharing personal information or search queries with outside companies. This unique technology is powered by the Cliqz Human Web, a revolutionary way for a collective of users to contribute anonymous statistical data to improve the relevancy and safety of advanced Cliqz privacy features.  Ghostery proudly joins this state-of-the-art browser and the rest of the Cliqz product suite to set a new standard in privacy protection.  Additionally, as part of this acquisition, Ghostery and Cliqz will continue to work closely with our previous parent company, Evidon, to help the organization support its industry-leading Digital Governance solutions by continuing to provide the same aggregated tracker data that we have previously.

What does this mean for Ghostery users?

First, rest assured that Ghostery will remain an independent product and that the same passionate (and uncommonly attractive) product team committed to its success will be joining the Cliqz family as a subsidiary company.  Second, to put it simply, Ghostery is about to become smarter, more powerful, and easier to use.  The Cliqz anti-tracking technology is a truly revolutionary solution that uses algorithmic blocking that doesn't require a blocklist, a feature we will integrate into Ghostery as soon as we possibly can.  Third, we are making Ghostery immediately available on the Cliqz browser, so if you want to see this chocolate-and-peanut-butter relationship between algorithmic and blocklist anti-tracking in action, you can check it out right now.   Finally, Ghostery data collection will remain the same for all existing users, will be strengthened by Cliqz's best-in-class privacy practices, and will be done in accordance with Germany data privacy laws, the strictest in the world.  While data collection will remain the same, we have updated our privacy statements to reflect the change of ownership, which you can see here.


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  • (Score: 2) by halcyon1234 on Saturday February 18 2017, @04:03AM

    by halcyon1234 (1082) on Saturday February 18 2017, @04:03AM (#468486)

    not just putting a pop-status, but "unrolling" it so there was fucking motion on each page load.

    Uhg, JFC, +1million to this. UI like that is a turning point to software's imminent demise. Who is the main audience for Ghostery? People who want trackers, cookies, bugs and other similar things gone. The Venn diagram of those people + adblock users is probably nearly 100%. And THOSE people use AdBlock because they absolutely fucking hate shiny, flashy, animated shit in the corner of their screen.

    So why in any realm of sanity would you (the UI designer) think it was a good idea to make something that flashes and animates for several seconds on EVERY SINGLE PAGE? The purple box was a small UI/UX hint that the plugin was working, and you didn't even have to look directly at it to get the information from it. (dark grey: everything blocked. Catch some high-contrast white? Something isn't blocked, maybe look at the box now).

    I even submitted a support ticket with a "WHY WHY WHY"-- But I guess I have my answer now as to WHY they would do this. To make the product LOOK flashy so some idiot "upper management" person would jizz their pants over it, and offer MUCH MONIES in buyouts.

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