Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
4,488 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by The Beard Below My Chin, 7 years agoPositives:
- Idiot-proof, works out the box
- Novice and expert mode
- Listens and responds to community
- Beautifully designed interface
- Massive blocking list.
Negatives:
- First install: 'Analytics and "Human Web Data"' is actually opt out which is predatory for new users.
- Smart filter allows certain ads and tracking sites (Google ads for example).
- Owned by Cliqz GmbH who profit off anonymized data collection. They have to play nice with competing advertisers and trackers.
- Proprietary closed source/ partially open source.
I suggest using these addons who have no ties to user data collection/advertising as of now:
Ublock: Blocks ads / trackers
Umatrix: Allow/deny third party elements
Cookie Auto Delete: Keep useful cookies, auto delete trash cookies.
Privacy Badger: Uses heuristic for trackers, a "light" open-source variation of Ghostery.Developer response
posted 7 years agoas a note.. Ghostery is going open-source this week! Keep an eye out for the announcement - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13837373, 7 years agoIt is awesome but conflicting with my online college classes
Developer response
posted 7 years agocan you send us more info? Would like to see if there is something we can help with. support@ghostery.com - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13836248, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13836197, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13835819, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13835321, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13453836, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lucas Josef, 7 years agoótimo Ghostery o carinha ai de baixo o Ghostery também tem Adblock não precisa mas usar esse que você utiliza, e o do Ghostery bloqueia a Propaganda junto com a privacidade.
- Rated 5 out of 5by America, 7 years agoO melhor bloqueador de rastreadores. Exporto a configuração como backup quando quiser e quantas vezes precisar. Além do objetivo de bloquear rastreadores, permite "confiar no site" ou "Restringir site" e ainda "Pausar". Uso em conjunto com "uBlock Origin" sem nenhum problema há muitos meses. Uso no aparelho celular também as duas extensões juntas.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13629808, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13831394, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13828257, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12199861, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13829430, 7 years agoAdd-on installé depuis plusieurs années et qui fonctionnait assez bien. Ces derniers mois, j'ai dû désactiver l'application car ça buggait constamment, m'obligeant à relancer Firefox, m'empêchait d'accéder à certains sites pourtant sûrs (syndrome de la page blanche). Finalement, je l'ai désinstallé. Trop de bugs ! Dommage.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoDésolé pour le dérangement. Nous venons de publier 8.0.9.7 qui a résolu de nombreux problèmes. Nous espérons que vous nous donnerez un autre essai! - Rated 5 out of 5by karwan00, 7 years agoŚwietny dodatek. Naprawcie tylko to migotanie stron. Pozdrawiam
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13387059, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by –Phase–, 7 years agoAs good as it is, I ended up having to disable it because it was causing some incessant problems on many of the sites I frequently visit. To start with, it always blocks Disqus, a comment system frequently used all over the net and although blocking of Disqus can be disabled, even after doing that, I'm still unable to log in to DIsqus unless I completely pause Ghostery, log in, then unpause it. Even then, when I unpause Ghostery and I reload the page, I find that I've been logged out of Disqus, yet this doesn't happen when I keep Ghostery paused. It also frequently causes problems on a bunch of different websites, such as blocking captchas, making it impossible to do certain things like log into some sites or create accounts on others. I could go on and on, but long story short, it caused me too many problems than it solved, so I'll be keeping it disabled until it gets a few patches
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey there.. sounds like if you toggle off the Ant-Tracking module this may solve your issue. More info here: https://www.ghostery.com/faqs/what-are-the-new-ghostery-8-features/ - Rated 5 out of 5by Bout's Morgan, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13072571, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13825829, 7 years agoThe extension causes a delay in rendering CSS, which again can be seen as a flicker/blinking before the page loads. This bug is already known to the dev-people, but there is still no fix! Extremely annoying, so i'll stop using this plugin now and start looking for alternatives!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey there... We have the fix ready to go and its on the way out the door today 3/1. Sorry for the inconvenience.