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Their FAQ says otherwise: https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16

“When a user opts-in to GhostRank, Ghostery sends the following information each time a tracker is encountered:

    the tracker identified by Ghostery
    the blocking state of the tracker
    domains identified as serving trackers
    the time it takes for the tracker to load
    the tracker’s position on the page
    the browser in which Ghostery has been installed
    Ghostery version information”
Nothing about the URL you visit. Do you have reason to believe they're lying?


Ghostery's Alert Bubble does not report any trackers on this Hacker News page, yet every time I reload this page, my HTTP monitor (Charles Proxy) logs a ping to ghostery.com:

  http://l.ghostery.com/api/page/?d=news.ycombinator.com%2Fitem&l=304&s=0&ua=firefox&rnd=7639974
  http://l.ghostery.com/api/page/?d=news.ycombinator.com%2Fitem&l=426&s=0&ua=firefox&rnd=5747246
  http://l.ghostery.com/api/page/?d=news.ycombinator.com%2Fitem&l=346&s=0&ua=firefox&rnd=8989043
Why does Evidon need to know about pages that have no trackers? The FAQ says the domains serving trackers will be identified, not the complete URL path (minus query string parameters) for pages that have no trackers.




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