Why Ghostery is a recommended addon?

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On this site we can read

Recommended extensions are curated extensions that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience.

and

All Recommended extensions should not only function as they promise (…)

and

Firefox is committed to helping protect you against third party software that may inadvertently compromise your data—or worse—breach your privacy with malicious intent.

So how comes that Mozilla is recommending Ghostery addon which is know of reselling our private information to advertisers*? Is that means I shouldn’t trust any of addons recommended by you? Or maybe that this

Can developers pay to be recommended?

No. All Recommended content is curated solely for the purpose of providing Firefox users with great browsing tools and experiences.

is simply a lie?

*That’s exactly how Ghostery owners make money.

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Are you saying their description of what they do with user data in the following page is not accurate?

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ghostery/privacy/

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I will say that having such description of what they do with user data is enough to recommend AGAINST this addon.

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I agree. Whenever I see the word “Recommended” I always have to mentally replace it with “Staff Picks” because that’s what it really is. Every one of the “recommend” extensions in the first 3 pages of results are not something I feel I would personally use and if anyone “recommended” them to me, I would say, “have you ever seen how I browse the web?”. That list is just of bunch of “staff picks” that are the “cream of the crop” for the stereotypical user, and certainly not for me.

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If I can add some alternatives, MAYBE (because a lot is, really, down to personal preference - sometimes :)), then, perhaps - we’ve got a couple that stand out:

  1. The first one is made by EFF, who also make HTTPS Everywhere and it’s the Privacy Badger! :slight_smile:

  2. And the second is made by a independent developer: Decentraleyes & this is a CDN-trickery-tool; test is @https://decentraleyes.org/test/

… While you’re at it, just take a look at this as well (it’s from EFF, above): https://www.eff.org/pages/tools

P.S. “Cliqz”, the (‘Ghostery’) parent company, also makes a browser… which is pretty bad, meh. I actually know people that use it, blah! :confused:

^^ I mean, it may not be WW3 worthy alarms, but for example the previously-EXCELLENT Adblock Plus Add-on (Extension) moved-on to a semi-advertizing model - and while I understand that development takes enormous amounts of time and we all have to make money to live - most of us have, then, moved-on to uBlock Origin for controlling internet advertising. Such is life, I guess?! It is what it is.