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Ghostery has been downloaded more than 100 million times, with 7 million people using the app or browser extension on a monthly basis.
CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz says the company acquired Ghostery through Cliqz , a search engine.
He says he doesn't believe regulation is the most effective way to protect online privacy.
Google announced this week that they would make it a choice for the user to turn on privacy or turn it off.
The problem is that you just cannot trust Big Tech [or] regulation to come to your rescue, he says.
Ghostery blocks ads from YouTube and Google , but it's a cat-and-mouse game between the ad blocking companies and YouTube .
The more users protect themselves, the more it becomes unsustainable for advertisers and publishers.
I don’t think the authorities have the guts nor the will to say, “this is forbidden.” They’re going to try to attack it sideways, but not frontally. So it’s really about users, the only vector of change that's really possible.
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