Chrome makes a good attempt at forcing https when possible but there's lots of major websites that still hard default to http. There's still major banks that take your username as http before passing it to a https api which allows all kinds of attack vectors and there's far worse out there if you look. Most websites can accept https due to ISS/Apache adding the standard but they do not default to it. I wish that was true (HTTPS) but it's not. Privacy Badger would be a better anti-tracking extension and is a good apple-to-apples comparison. Nope Ghostery is in the business of making money from big advertising companies that alone should make people think twice about using it. It's sounding like ad-blocker or other privacy tools themselves needed to be vetted because many of them do other undesirable things.ītw, why is HTTPS Everywhere needed? Almost all the sites these days are already on https. I read about the controversy or issue about Ghostery selling user data or something along those lines. The way adds are delivered changes every 60-90 days and then the blockers are updated so anyone telling you XXX block is perfect doesn't really surf the internet enough to know the difference. No blocker will be 100% effective all the time. If something comes up blocked that I want to see it's easy enough to unblock it until I close the tab. I use it in advanced mode with 3rd party scripts, 3rd party frames and all tracking disabled permanently. Learn how to use UBlock Origins (privacy badger isn't bad but not as full featured) and HTTPS Everywhere correctly and you will be far safer overall. That's pretty common knowledge if you look for it. Adblock, Adblock Pus, & Ublock (not Origins it's different) will let through ads if they are paid for it. Ghostery by itself isn't a proper ad-blocker and it's a sell out to boot they sell blocking data back to the advertisers.
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