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David Cancel: Announcing Ghostery

  • Matt Harwood · 11 months ago
    David,

    This looks fantastic. Thank you very much for your hard work. Will definitely give feedback once I've tested!
  • David Cancel · 11 months ago
    Matt,

    Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

    Cheers,
    David
  • hiten · 11 months ago
    Great work on Ghostery, David. I'm looking forward to the future of it :)
  • edison · 11 months ago
    very nice and informative site.. i will try to use this Ghostery... ;) thanks for sharing...

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  • Ryan C. · 11 months ago
    Hi David. I love this. Just blogged about it on the Stanford Center for Internet and Society website (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5992). Good luck.

    Ryan
  • kentbrew · 11 months ago
    Well done! Have you thought about:

    1) history reporting -- stats on which Web bugs I've encountered and/or tend to encounter the most, and

    2) option toggle -- when I click any of the bug names, I want to be opted out of (or back into) being tracked by that particular bug.

    --Kent
  • David Cancel · 11 months ago
    Kent,

    I love both those ideas. Can I steal them?

    Having fun checking out your website, thanks for checking out Ghostery. A lot of changes in the work, including open sourcing the extension, have a number of contributors lined up, exciting.

    Cheers,
    David
  • kentbrew · 11 months ago
    Yes, please steal. Thinking further: a way to opt in to share aggregate information about what bugs you encounter and what bugs you turn off might also be useful.

    --Kent
  • David Cancel · 11 months ago
    Cool.

    That suggestion is definitely on my list and next up in the queue.

    Cheers,
    David
  • tigerandyx9 · 9 months ago
    I have also been using Ghostery and find that your two suggestions are valid for me, ie 1) option toggle -- when I click any of the bug names, I want to be opted out of (or back into) being tracked by that particular bug. 2) history reporting -- stats on Web bugs I've encountered
    Thanks David for your well appreciated efforts!
    Cheers,
    Andres
  • David Cancel · 9 months ago
    Cool feedback, thank you.

    Definitely adding them to the development list.

    David
  • kentbrew · 11 months ago
    David: I need to contact you offline about Bzzster as soon as possible, please. Just followed you on Twitter; could DM it to you.
  • Saad Ali Abbasi · 11 months ago
    Pleasure sharing it with out readers.
  • Cancel · 11 months ago
    Cancel's are awesome!!!!


    love,
    jennifer, ashley, christopher, and david cancel
  • Elena · 11 months ago
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    Thank you
  • herm · 9 months ago
    I love being able to see who'w watching my every move.... Now is there any way the tracking cookies can be stopped?