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TeaLeaf

#30
January 06, 2021, 02:37:42 PM
+1 for Smilo's comments.  I also run a solo VPN plus Ublock.   I run PIA (which I sometimes have speed or DNS issues with) as a backup VPN, and my main VPN is VPNsecure.me which I have had no issues with.   I think the VPN was about £30 for a 'lifetime' deal (or 10,000 days) which adds up to considerably cheaper than Ghostery.
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BrotherTobious

#31
January 06, 2021, 03:51:16 PM
I decided to go with ProtonVPN and not had any issues and speeds are pretty good.  Expensive but wanted to see how the  other half live :)
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smilodon

#32
January 06, 2021, 03:56:46 PM
They are also all very privacy and Swiss and no logs. I used them for a year then went Express VPN as cheap is good :D
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SithAfrikaan

#33
January 06, 2021, 05:17:08 PM
Quote from: smilodon;444346Decisions about Ad Blocking and VPN's often comes down to not much more than personal choice. There are loads of viable solutions all very legitimate choices. Although Ghostery seems to be unique in offering ad blocking and a VPN. £12 isn't a ridiculous price to pay for a VPN and if you get browser protection thrown in, bonus.

Two thoughts:

First is that Ghostery is owned by Hubert Burda Media which is a large German media company. I'm not sure why a company like that would be interested in providing an ad blocker as it makes a good chunk of it's profit from advertising?

Second is that Ghostery doesn't actually provide it's own VPN but is a reseller for FoxyProxy, so it is actually FoxyProxy you are getting your VPN from. FoxyProxy will charge you £7.33 a month or £5.50 if you go for the annual plan. So you could go direct to FoxyProxy and then install one of many free ad blockers all of which IMHO are the equal of Ghostery. Free VPN's are usually dodgy but not so Ad Blockers.

Maybe consider Ublock Origin (my favourite and IMO the best blocker) or Privacy Badger by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others.

I also run uBlock! What an incredible extension!
Thanks for the comments Smilo, but when I looked up Ghostery it said that the parent company is https://cliqz.com/en/about but I see that they have suspended Cliqz maybe they sold to the one you mentioned?

I've been happy with CyberGhost VPN like I said for over 2 years now, I'm just exploring I guess :-D
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smilodon

#34
January 06, 2021, 06:07:11 PM
Cliqz is a subsidiary company of HBM. Specifically HBM has a majority holding in Cliqz... whatever than means? All looks perfectly legit and maybe HBM are just hedging their bets. I'm also assuming that as a media company and publisher they use online advertising in their publications. I don't know it as a fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery
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