areweprivateyet

It also appears to lag Ghostery and Adblock in efficacy [1]. Granted, AreWePrivateYet is "presented by Ghostery." But Ghostery does not necessarily show up at the top of the list every month (see November 2013). AreWePrivateYet also uses a Stanford study's methodology [2] for its open-source model [3]. Update: Ghostery appears to outperform Disconnect even when both are put in "block all trackers" mode [4]. [1] http://www.areweprivateyet.com [2] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-... [3] https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet [4] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...

(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.