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| Thread ID: 150545 | 2022-03-25 04:30:00 | Ghostery - got rid of - thank goodness | Misty (368) | PC World Chat |
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| 1485131 | 2022-03-25 04:30:00 | For some reason, this app Ghostery, invaded my space. I pressed a link on a trusted email to view the contents of a group that I am a member of. Got the message -- did I really trust this site, click below, etc! Took me a while to get rid of the damned thing. My humble suggestion is .... keep well away! | Misty (368) | ||
| 1485132 | 2022-03-25 08:44:00 | Something funny going on there, last time I looked, Ghostery was a perfectly legitimate anti-tracking browser extension. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1485133 | 2022-03-25 17:47:00 | I've been running the Ghostery browser extension for a few years now. Just does its stuff in the background. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1485134 | 2022-03-25 21:30:00 | Same here. Ghostery works for me. | Pato (2463) | ||
| 1485135 | 2022-03-26 22:30:00 | There are issues though, some have had problems: addons.mozilla.org If not, great, but it can happen. Haven't looked for fixes... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1485136 | 2022-03-26 23:05:00 | It seems like the issue here is the user not understanding what the extension is actually for, or doing. Presumably the link in their email was intercepted by Ghostery as being suspicious for some reason, and asking them to confirm whether or not they want to view it. It may have been a false positive, or perhaps Ghostery was bringing to their attention that the link will track the user. Especially coming from an email, this is a tactic used to verify email addresses for future spamming etc. It's also possible the sender has a virus on their device and the link was modified from the original to include some malicious tracking or redirection. Remember, the link text that you see on screen in an email/website and the actual URL behind it can be completely different. This is how many phishing scams work. |
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