Ghostery

I visited the site a few weeks ago. It seems to be pretty cool. I looked into reviews before using ghostery. I am trying it out for the first time. Ghostery offers these tools. Alerts users about the web bugs, ad networks and widgets on visited web pages. News, screenshots and download. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. Ghostery is your window into the invisible web tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior. So far I have found this extension to be helpful. Although it is something I have never used before. I think it is pretty cool. There are so many sites you can't trust. Maybe ghostery can help make you feel a little safer. I hope others on Site Jabber check it out. I have not complaint's on this site so far. Ghostery seems to be a pretty cool little detective.

A useful Firefox add-on, this examines every page you visit and reports on the invisible trackers, bugs and beacons that may be being used to monitor your activities. These are normally associated with ad distributors, and Google, though it isn't that hard for anyone to follow you around without your knowing, if they have the skills to implement the code.

There is an option to view a caption which overlays a small area of the page, listing all the services discovered, or to have a link in your toolbar or both. A very nice touch is the capability to then visit the Ghostery reference page which describes known information about that service.

You also have the opportunity to block any of these services, if you don' t already have other blocking add-ons doing that for you.

It's a revealing and helpful add-on that doesn't seem to have any negative aspects at all. Recommended, along with Ad-block Plus, Flashblock and NoScript as basic security measures.

Ghostery has totally lost their user trust when the users found out that they were actually selling user data to other advertisment companies. I guess they are regaining their reputation after Cliqz, the German browser company bought the ad blocker. Cliqz in combination with Ghostery works pretty good and blocks most of the ads.

Lately I have been unable to view many web sites because of AdBlock+ - or so I thought. Even after I whitelisted a site, I was still blocked from seeing it, so I uninstalled AdBlock+. I STILL could not view the sites. That's when I began getting pop-ups saying that Ghostery was preventing me from seeing the site. Ghostery? I had never installed that software. It was, somehow, installed on the sly. So I removed it. Now my system is back to normal. Very disturbing.

Ghostery was preventing Dropbox from syncing and also limiting installation of software from Autodesk (AutoCad/Revit). I did not have an opportunity to remedy the problem. I found myself almost daily quitting the Ghostery application when it started. The program should not limit daily workflow and operation of well-respected applications unless it is providing a specific alert as to why it should be doing so. Ultimately it was easier to uninstall than to troubleshoot.

My Last version of Ghostery was VERY effective and allowed me to block ALL trackers on each site. The newest version PRETENDS to allow me to block trackers but has a select group of trackers, "Twitter Button" on this site for instance. That are UNBLOCKED and won't be blocked no matter how many times I engage the blocking feature. I assume some of these sites MUST be paying ghostery a fee to prevent them being blocked. I'm MUCH less satisfied with the newest version of the program than previous versions.

Real good ad blocker. No virus. Blocks all trackers and strict ad blocking makes it a really good ad blocker!

Very easy to use and a great concept. Why should we not be able to choose our own privacy levels and what we are exposed to online?