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Show HN: An open source comparison of privacy extensions (areweprivateyet.com)
8 points by ghostwords on Aug 13, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


(OP here.) Disclosure: I work on Ghostery.

This is a study of privacy extensions conducted by a privacy extension, which extension happens to come out ahead in the study (at this point in time). Hmm ...

So this is why the project is open on GitHub: https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet. Please fork, review, send suggestions/pull requests, ...

We get a lot of people asking which extension works better, and we see everyone (us included) make all sorts of claims about effectiveness.

This is a first step in getting some objectivity behind those claims, a resource to point people to, and a way to get all extensions to improve in effectiveness.




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