Ghostery

by Ghostery

Rating: 4.5 Total number of ratings: 662

Description

DETECT

Ghostery sees the "invisible" web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google, and over 500 other ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers - all companies interested in your activity.

LEARN

After showing you who operates behind the scenes, Ghostery also gives you the opportunity to learn more about each company it identifies, including links to their privacy policy and opt-out options.

CONTROL

Ghostery allows you to block scripts, images, objects and framed documents from companies that you don't trust.

COLLABORATE

Ghostery also includes the optional, opt-in feature called GhostRank, which sends Ghostery servers anonymous information about the trackers you encounter and where you encounter them. This allows us to create a more comprehensive list of detectable items, and helps us create a more transparent behavioral advertising ecosystem through our partnership with Evidon.

PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY

Ghostery is built and maintained for users that care about their online privacy, and is engineered with privacy as a primary goal. Ghostery use is anonymous. No registrations or sign-ups are required. The Ghostery plug-in does not place cookies into your browser. Neither the Ghostery application nor Evidon receives any data from Ghostery users unless the user opts-in to participate in GhostRank. GhostRank data itself is anonymous, is NEVER used for advertising targeting purposes, and is only shared in aggregated, non-personal, statistical form.

For more information, check out Ghostery's privacy policy. To learn more about GhostRank data, its use, and our partnership with Evidon, check out our FAQ.

Ghostery's source code is straight-forward - for some hands-on privacy management goodness, look inside! You'll find that Ghostery works just like we describe.

CONNECT

Send us e-mail: support@ghostery.com

Visit our support forum: http://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery

Read our FAQ: http://www.ghostery.com/faq

Friend us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ghostery

Check out the blog: http://news.ghostery.com

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Downloads

1,354,198

Category

Tools

Version

5.2.0

Size

829.9 KB

Last update

April 11, 2014

License

Full license text

Support page

https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery

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Changelog

New to 5.2.0:

- Tracker detection performance drastically improved
- Purple box UI enhancements
- Improved handling of 302 redirects
- Findings panel UI improvements

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Reviews and ratings

steevens-tonn says:

Rating: 2

ok; mw se HAITI

April 18, 2014 - Version 0.10.0
drummerben04 says:

Rating: 2

Beware! This is not an opened source software. It's so good why do you think its free. Point is its a business and I just don't trust something that's not open source. Read this article:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/

others may not block as many as this one but I'm not willing to risk my chances.

April 2, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
peteacher7075 says:

Rating: 5

Love this app. its my favorite app. no difference in performance but great at tracking the trackers and im able to do something about it too.

April 2, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
shahzod1124 says:

Rating: 3

Did you say "Why?!"
Because it didn't work on many sites (https://...).

March 31, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
gzmzlkn says:

Rating: 5

awesome!

March 28, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
qitmiraing says:

Rating: 4

Amazing

March 25, 2014 - Version 0.10.0
jorgebeta says:

Rating: 5

Es indudable que siempre hay la actitud de sevicio como siempre

March 22, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
shinden76 says:

Rating: 5

Fantastic ^^

March 20, 2014 - Version 5.1.0
francisfranakanciseureuh says:

Rating: 4

alus

March 19, 2014 - Version 0.10.0
leopedro669 says:

Rating: 3

is the best.

March 14, 2014 - Version 0.10.0

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