New York City | Full-Time | Ghostery

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Ghostery appears on Hacker News quiet often and sometimes people here think that we should do things differently. Well, here we are, open for change if you join us -- you, a senior level developer that will most definitely affect the product direction, future of what Ghostery is, and affect the millions of users that use Ghostery every single day. Full job description is here: https://purplebox.ghostery.com/post/1016024115 To apply, email us your CV or resume to careers@ghostery.com or follow the links in the blog post.

We are in New York City and hope that the candidate is local, though relocation assistance is offered. International candidates are welcome as well. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

The source is not just very readable, we make it publicly available for review. Here are some links: - AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/254748... - Chrome: https://www.ghostery.com/ghosteries/chrome/

We are most definitely not influenced by third parties, if anything, companies now contact us directly to provide their registration information for monitoring by Ghostery. Additionally, we keep the database changes public here: https://www.ghostery.com/en/database/changelog

Thank you, thats exactly what we do. =)

lol

Its explained in many places, such as our website, our FAQ, our support board, all the store listings, and finally in the extension itself.

Ghostrank is not a tracking service of the user, its a way to measure the ecosystem of trackers in the webbernets.

No one is intentionally obscuring anything. If you have a better idea of how to explain what we do, by all means, please tell me and I shall make it happen.

What happens is straight forward tho. Ghostery collects tracker data as you browse and sends it to us if you've allowed us to collect the data by enabling Ghostrank.

We take the data in, strip it of anything that may point it back to any user and sell it in packages to anyone interested in these reports. Heres what some of the reports purchased from us looks like: https://purplebox.ghostery.com/misc/trackermap/2.html or https://purplebox.ghostery.com/misc/trackermap/5.html

Well, the option is actually to turn in on. By default, Ghostery does not collect anything.

Heh, it may not sell it to ad agencies, but it sure sends data back to them.

DNTMe is probably the worst choice to use for tracking protection, heres a study we have on the topic http://www.areweprivateyet.com

Aah. I see this website is by Ghostery itself. Anyway, what makes you say DNTMe is probably the worst choice? I use it along with ABP, and in the cases I have observed so far (few hours), both Disconnect and DNTMe block almost the same things. Of course, Disconnect.me mentions a very big number but it is just the number of requests and not the actual number of 'trackers' blocked. I'm still doing more experiments, but so far both are almost the same. And the numbers Disconnect shows are buggy - they are sometimes different when you expand their sections.

And yes, still not going to use Ghostery. :)

Ughh, Ghostery isn't FLOSS, but that does not make the code invisible, many places where you can see it like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/vers... or ghostery.com/ghosteries/chrome/

And there is this: http://www.areweprivateyet.com

Would be interesting if http://www.areweprivateyet.com would test against more Adblock lists.. rather than a select few.