Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
4,733 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13743151, 8 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nico, 8 years agoThis kind of addon is really what I hate. They claim to defend users by blocking trackers but their business model is actually selling your data to that very companies they claim to protect you from.
It's like Adblock plus. They get payed by advertisers to set them on the whitelist, that they of course enable by default because they know the general user will not touch that setting.
Firefox has its own track blocker build in, you can now enable it always on. I additional use ad-nauseam with some tracking filters enabled. It may be counter productive because ad-nauseam actually can click every ad for you in the background to generate false clicks and make them pay more money so they may be able to track you better but I just love that concept.
Replying to the dev below:
1. User data - tracker data. tomatos tomatos.
2. OK how are you making money now? I will not read that article. You are absolutely untrustworthy because you had a parent company like that in the first place. And probably doing some other new shady stuff.Developer response
posted 8 years agoHey there.. The business model you are referring to 1. Was never user data, it was tracker information. 2. Is no longer in practice since we split ways with the previous parent company. You can read more about that here: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/ - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13729228, 8 years agoSo far this extension has been working very good. I have not noticed any changes in the speed of pages loading. Very informative as well. I am liking this extension more and more!!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jaylorr, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13719944, 8 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by NoSpeak, 8 years agoThe latest interface took away a lot of easy functionality and quick access. It looks prettier but less useful. It also causes a lot of problems on a number of sites that the older versions of Ghostery had no issue with. Like blocking audio, comments etc. No matter if I uncheck everything, the only way they work is to disable Ghostery or set the site as trusted.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoHey there,.. can you send us some examples so we can check them out? [email protected] - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13712600, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ali, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13689448, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13708752, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kcks913, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13706283, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13626034, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13705943, 8 years agoThis add-on is amazing. It protects me from so many trackers, and I love how you can click on it and see how many trackers websites are trying to get by
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13457974, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13701570, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zecollege99, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Miss Dias, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13038173, 8 years agoVery good Add on. Blocks ads and it's "pause" function works really well for sites that sometimes can't work when the addon is enabled (like Yahoo! mail's search function i.e).
I used to have an adblocker, cookie deleter and a scriptblocker and both have been replaced by Ghostery.