Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
409 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13077240, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14642163, 5 years agoThe old Ghostery was excellent; however it was removed and I was told that if I wanted to have a better one; to pay $2.00 and give-up all my personal information to Mozilla/Firefox. I thought about it for awhile and decided to look at their contract but it was nowhere to be found.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi, Ghostery is still available and free to use as it always has. We recently introduced an option to have additional features by signing up for Ghostery Plus. Ghostery does not track or store personal data. Here is a link to our privacy statements for more information: https://www.ghostery.com/about-ghostery/privacy-statements/ Please reach out to us by email via support@ghostery.com with any questions or comments. Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14506864, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14622018, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14598097, 5 years agoinexplicable VERY high use of CPU, want to access "all your data", slows down the navigations, sometimes doesnt work, when uninstalling the average temperature of my CPU dropped about 30 degrees
Developer response
posted 5 years agoIn order for Ghostery to block trackers and ads, it needs to be able to detect and take action on elements of a web page as you browse. We do not record sensitive information, record browsing history, or disclose user data. Note that despite the prompt being new, Ghostery is not introducing any new permissions with the update. Would you mind sending an email to support@ghostery.com so we can look into your other concerns? Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14584832, 5 years agoCauses SEVERE slowdowns and increases loading times on nearly all webpages. Does not perform well at all. Would not recommend to anyone. The moment I uninstalled the extension, Firefox was immediately faster and smoother. I'll go back to using other extensions. Avoid Ghostery.
EDIT:
I reached to Ghostery support. I'll update if they reply with a solution. For now I am still firmly under the impression that their add-no does not provide a faster experience. Yes, it blocks trackers and ads, but my experience was very slow and unusable.Developer response
posted 5 years agoGhostery speeds up page loads by blocking third party tracking, ads, and slow loading scripts. Please reach out to us by email to support@ghostery.com with any examples you can provide. Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14486225, 5 years agoВообще не понятно с настройками. И рекламу не блокирует в соц сетях.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoПривет, Ghostery блокирует стороннее отслеживание / рекламу. Пожалуйста, отправьте электронное письмо на support@ghostery.com с некоторыми примерами, где мы не блокируем, чтобы мы могли изучить это. Спасибо! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14485671, 5 years agoне блокирует рекламу на сайте mail.ru (рекламный баннер ниже списка папок при просмотре входящих писем)
Developer response
posted 5 years agoПривет, Ghostery блокирует стороннее отслеживание / рекламу. Пожалуйста, отправьте электронное письмо на support@ghostery.com с некоторыми примерами, где мы не блокируем, чтобы мы могли изучить это. Спасибо! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14477117, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by lukaszb, 6 years agoit's now like a malware collecting yours data, avoid like a fire
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, in order for Ghostery to block trackers and ads, it needs to be able to detect and take action on elements of a web page as you browse. We do not record sensitive information, record browsing history, or disclose user data. Note that despite the prompt being new, Ghostery is not introducing any new permissions with the update. You can read about this in greater detail on our FAQ page, here: https://www.ghostery.com/faqs/why-am-i-being-prompted-to-approve-an-update-from-ghostery/
We are also open source, which you can view here: https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13890511, 6 years agoCannot Post Comments on FLICKI, FIREFOX doesn't work
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, would you mind sending an email to support@ghostery.com so we can take a look? Mostly likely you will just need to adjust your Ghostery settings. - Rated 1 out of 5by Lexiy, 6 years agoкогда дополнение для конфиденциальности внезапно запрашивает данные о тебе, это так мило!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14458819, 6 years agoI have been a user of Ghostery for a number of years. I have now disabled it. The reason? I am alarmed by the request to "access all data" submitted to websites. Why does Ghostery need to capture my sensitive data such as passwords? Is Ghostery GDRP compliant or should there be a referral to the Information Comissioners Office.? Come on Ghostery spill the beans why do you want all this data.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, in order for Ghostery to block trackers and ads, it needs to be able to detect and take action on elements of a web page as you browse. We do not record sensitive information, record browsing history, or disclose user data. Note that despite the prompt being new, Ghostery is not introducing any new permissions with the update. You can read about this in greater detail on our FAQ page, here: https://www.ghostery.com/faqs/why-am-i-being-prompted-to-approve-an-update-from-ghostery/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12815491, 6 years agoWhy do you need "acces your data for all websites " for the latest update ? i dont trust you anymore !
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, there, in order for Ghostery to block trackers and ads, it needs to be able to detect and take action on elements of a web page as you browse. We do not record sensitive information, record browsing history, or disclose user data. Note that despite the prompt being new, Ghostery is not introducing any new permissions with the update. You can read about this in greater detail on our FAQ page, here: https://www.ghostery.com/faqs/why-am-i-being-prompted-to-approve-an-update-from-ghostery/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13939514, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14413534, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13285874, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14306959, 6 years agoDoesn't block anything on Facebook, which would be my only incentive to use it over AdBlock Plus, who has pretty much bent over for Facebook's ad team. Pointless.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoGhostery focuses on blocking third party tracking/ads. Would you mind sending an email to support@ghostery.com with some examples so we can assist? Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14226781, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 4089371, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13956460, 6 years agoSchlechter Blocker und schlechter verfolgungs schutz! benutzt besser uBlock Origin!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14258782, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by tobim91, 6 years agoDadurch das dieses Addon einer Mediengruppe gehört lässt es deren Werbung durch.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14234711, 6 years agoNot compatible with FF 61.0.1 on LinuxMint. Freezes the whole program and needs to be force quit. In the past it's been wonderful. I will update my review if it works again, hopefully!!!
Developer response
posted 6 years agoSorry about that, would you mind sending us an email to support@ghostery.com we can look into it further? Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14195272, 6 years ago