I should've phrased this part as " seems to be getting DDoS'd". Īs I said at disconnectme/disconnect#122, is being DDoS'd but should be back online for everybody once our DNS changes fully propagate. The affiliate network is backed by an investor who has also invested in AdBlock Plus mother company Eyeo GmbH."Ĭheck it out and then decide, I chose AdBlockEdgeĪlrighty, with our website and extensions (and dev team) all recovered. The affiliate network is entitled to 30 percent of the turnover. Summarý: "Pallenberg raises serious allegations against the makers of Adblock Plus: Site owners are offered to display 'acceptable' ads through an affiliate network. Well, you have to decide which "ideology" you want to support by using and therefore promoting a certain software: I’ll just rather not take the chance.) not AdBlock Plus? Although, I guess that, as I have not installed the extension or ran any of its associated code I may not be subject to the EULA and am allowed to reverse engineer. (I would even suggest to use Ghostery’s database but I ‘may not disassemble or reverse engineer Ghostery’ according to their EULA. Preferably a database distributed through e.g. IceCat and Icedove) and start an open database of trackers. What would be really good and open per the definition we want: if someone would fork Disconnect and purge all proprietary assets (cf. To me this makes them equally closed since it is the database we want to make use of. Disconnect uses Disconnect’s (the company) database and Ghostery uses Evidon’s database. In the end you are trusting proprietary databases with both extensions. There are 2 more files but I haven’t taken the time to figure out their purpose. /chrome/content/ghostery-click2play.json identifying 20 widgets/embeds./chrome/content/ghostery-lsos.json identifying 747 things (probably flash cookies – LSOs),./chrome/content/ghostery-bugs.json (db version 211) identifying 1819 bugs,.I have checked and can confirm that Ghostery (Firefox edition) 2.9.6 indeed includes: You should find a file named bugs.js or ghostery-bugs.json for the library Ghostery uses. They are simply a zip files, so if you rename it and unzip, you will see the contents and source code of Ghostery. That said, the library is not hidden, you may take a look at it by cracking open any of the extensions that allow it: Chrome, Opera, Safari or Firefox. We do not publicly expose our library since it represents our view/take on what should or should not be in it. Ghostery’s Felix Shnir wrote over a year ago: (emphasis mine) In fact, I can find little to no information about what Disconnect is blocking while Ghostery includes the data files right in their extensions for me to inspect. It looks like to me that their database of tracking sites is proprietary. ![]() (Which is weird, 2 of those files state that they are licensed under GPL…) But I’ll let this go as we have had these discussions many times here. While they are GPL licensed there are exceptions including their logos and three of the source files. But as I see it Disconnect is only marginally better than Ghostery.ĭisconnect is not truly free, just like how Firefox isn’t. I have no real opinion on this issue and haven’t used either Ghostery or Disconnect in a while – instead going for rigorous AdBlock filters. Today I also noticed Disconnect redirects some Google requests when I search images on Google.
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