Ghostery : Browser Addon

[Ink]

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.

Ghostery allows zero-tolerance blocking of anything ad related, complete (visible) open communication with ad companies, or countless measures in between - determined by you, the informed web user.

About Ghostery

Ghostery Homepage + Download

 

[bogdan]

I'll give it a try.

 

[Jack]

I'll try it and report

 

[HeffeD]

If you use AdBlock Plus with the EasyPrivacy filter, it's already blocking what Ghostery blocks.

 

[Ink]

Ghostery is available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. What about for the ones you listed? ;P

 

[bogdan]

That might be true but Ghostery shows a nice pop-up with the bugs present on each site

 

[HeffeD]

Ghostery is available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. What about for the ones you listed? ;P

Currently ABP works in Firefox and Chrome. Wladimir has plans for Safari support as well, but I think he wants to get the Chrome extension up to par before Safari. I believe there is a way now to add ABP filters in IE, but I don't know the specifics.

 

[HeffeD]

That might be true but Ghostery shows a nice pop-up with the bugs present on each site

True, but does Ghostery give you a hit counter of how many times each bug is blocked? ABP's filters will give you a tally of each filter hit.

I haven't actually tried Ghostery since it was introduced, when all it did was report the bugs, not actually block them. So I'm unsure of all of its current features.

 

[Watasha]

I may try this, I've never really been a big ad blocker user.

 

[AyeAyeCaptain]

Well I stopped using this when it did not agree with FF and started using up too much CPU due to being buggy! I may try it again at some point, but see no reason to add another add-on with what I have already which is more than capable of helping keeping me safe.

 

[jamescv7]

I used ghostery before, its nice overall of adblocker but i prefer to adblock plus.