Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
Review by The Beard Below My Chin
Rated 3 out of 5
by The Beard Below My Chin, 8 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.
- 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 8 years agoas a note.. Ghostery is going open-source this week! Keep an eye out for the announcement
5,680 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by desilugai, 9 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20124887, 9 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aryan Singh, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Beznogui, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20116070, 4 days agoI've been using this extension for a long time already, and it does what it says, very quietly. It's quiet as a ghost and it scares the big bad ads (and trackers) away!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bunnie, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zhjpwlj, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18815780, 11 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by bcb, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by David Lara Landa Verde, 15 days agoEs muy bueno, sólo que en algunas ocasiones, bloquea en exceso.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20022895, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ognjen Novaković, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IMR, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fanny, 19 days agoI've been using it for years. I don't know what I'd do without it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Evelyn89, 20 days agoBlocks more than EFF Privacy Badger witch allow some "friendly" trackers.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20084842, 20 days agoIt has been a really great adblocker for my needs.
It has protected my privacy, blocked ads and I haven't experimented problems with any web.
The only con is that sometimes you'll need to turn it off on webs with popups images that are neccesary for the web.
I reccomend it for its easy use (button or automatically) and the benefits this extension gives. Developer response
posted 20 days agoこんにちは。可能であれば、詳細をsupport@ghostery.comまでご連絡ください。詳細をお知らせいただければ、問題の解決をお手伝いさせていただきます。よろしくお願いいたします。Ghosteryチーム- Rated 5 out of 5by Aveyal, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kayoken, 22 days agoI have used Ghostery for years. YEARS, and they havent fucked up with ai, or adding paywalls or anything. So long as ghostery does its thing ill be happy to keep using it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by luigidr, 22 days ago