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Ghostery’s CEO says regulation won’t save us from ad trackers
With Ghostery turning 15 years old this month, TechCrunch caught up with CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz to discuss the company's strategy and the state of ad tracking.
So with Ghostery turning 15 years old this month, TechCrunch caught up with CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz to discuss the company’s strategy, the state of ad tracking, and why he doesn’t believe regulation is the most effective path to protecting online privacy. But Facebook was emerging with all kinds of social profiling, etc., etc., and a group of engineers, including myself at that time (I was more on the search side) began to notice that we didn’t really like the way our browser was being used to send signals invisibly to a bunch of third parties. Skip, a wearable tech startup that began as a secretive project inside Alphabet, exited stealth this week to announce a partnership with outdoor clothing specialist Arc’teryx.
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