And Ghostery is owned by an advertising company that tracks you by default.

sp332 · on July 13, 2014

Ghostrank? It's disabled by default.

Trufa · on July 13, 2014

It may have changed recently but for sure until some time ago, an option that clearly said they are tracking you, was activated by default.

yarrel · on July 13, 2014

Just checked on a new install, it's disabled.

throwaway2048 · on July 13, 2014

Ghostrank has never been enabled by default

3rd3 · on July 13, 2014

Is Disconnect.me better in that regard?

Trufa · on July 13, 2014

Well if you trust that ghostery wont track you if you disable, I think it's pretty good.

I have never heard of them until now to be honest so I'm not the guy to ask.

bsilvereagle · on July 13, 2014

You can view (and modify) the source code of all Chrome extensions to check that it won't track if the option is disabled:

Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\<Name>\Extensions Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/

rmrfrmrf · on July 13, 2014

NoScript master race :P