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Ghostery - Protect your privacy. See who's tracking your web browsing and block them.
DETECT
Ghostery sees the "invisible" web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google, and thousands of other 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 from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes.
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.
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. Besides a single, non-identified ping on install and upgrade, Ghostery never receives any data from users unless they've chosen 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.
Changelog:
v6.0.2 (2016-03-04):
- (not available)
v6.0.1 (2015-03-03):
- Release Summary
- The 6.0.1 hotfix addresses several issues and defects that were discovered in the wake of the 6.0.0 release to Firefox. In particular, we have fixed the issue with email signin and registration from within the extension so that emails with multiple characters and periods are now allowed. Additionally, we have fixed several issues with the tracker alert bubble (e.g., the purple box); the menu button has been fixed so that it displays properly and the box itself now remembers whether or not you had it expanded or collapsed, even if you navigate to a new page. We’ve also made some adjustments to the setup UI/UX to better communicate to users upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 that all their previous settings are being imported. Finally, we made improvements to other minor copy and UI issues as well as our ability to detect a user’s language upon install.
- The 6.0.1 hotfix addresses several issues and defects that were discovered in the wake of the 6.0.0 release to Firefox. In particular, we have fixed the issue with email signin and registration from within the extension so that emails with multiple characters and periods are now allowed. Additionally, we have fixed several issues with the tracker alert bubble (e.g., the purple box); the menu button has been fixed so that it displays properly and the box itself now remembers whether or not you had it expanded or collapsed, even if you navigate to a new page. We’ve also made some adjustments to the setup UI/UX to better communicate to users upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 that all their previous settings are being imported. Finally, we made improvements to other minor copy and UI issues as well as our ability to detect a user’s language upon install.
- New Features Summary
- Updated copy.
- Updated FAQ link.
- Updated release notifications link.
- Improvements to the accuracy of our opt-in data sharing.
- Improvements to internal product analytics.
- Fixed Defects Summary
- Fixed Defects Summary
- Fixes issue with user sign in / sign out, ensuring that users can stay signed in without being prematurely signed out.
- Fixes issue with tracker alert bubble (purple box) so that it stays open when you open it and closed when - you close it, even when navigating from page to page.
- Fixes issues related to extension UI interface, including defects related to overlapping text misplaced - scroll bars, and missing dismiss “x” from upgrade notification.
- Fixes issues related to to language recognition upon install for our 22 supported languages.
- Fixes issues related to Facebook social share where the Ghostery image was cropped incorrectly.
- Improves the UI on the Tracker Settings Panel when a user goes to a site that can’t be scanned or that doesn’t have any trackers.
v6.0.0 (2016-02-22):
- Release Summary
- Ghostery 6.0 represents a redesigned version of the product that aspires to be easier to use, more visually engaging, and more accessible to mainstream audience. There have been major improvements to the extension’s user interface designed to more intuitively align it with user needs and behaviors. The product has also been implemented with a revamped web UI that places user education at its center. This includes recategorizing the trackers in the Ghostery database into new, easy-to-understand categories, which have been implemented prominently in a new visual tracker organization hierarchy.Finally, Ghostery 6.0 includes, for the first time, user accounts that enable users to sync their settings across multiple devices.
- Ghostery 6.0 represents a redesigned version of the product that aspires to be easier to use, more visually engaging, and more accessible to mainstream audience. There have been major improvements to the extension’s user interface designed to more intuitively align it with user needs and behaviors. The product has also been implemented with a revamped web UI that places user education at its center. This includes recategorizing the trackers in the Ghostery database into new, easy-to-understand categories, which have been implemented prominently in a new visual tracker organization hierarchy.Finally, Ghostery 6.0 includes, for the first time, user accounts that enable users to sync their settings across multiple devices.
- New Features Summary
+ Redesigned web UI/UX
+ User accounts
+ Setting syncing
+ New product tour and setup
+ New trackers categories
+ Category allowing/blocking
+ Site-specific tracker allowing/blocking
+ Site-specific trusted and restricted sites
+ Redesigned collapsable purplebox tracker list
+ Redesigned social sharing
+ New customer support implementation (Zendesk)
+ Internationalization into 22 supported languages
- Fixed Defects Summary
+ Preliminary fixes on Macs for defects experienced with Electrolysis enabled in the Firefox Nightly build.
+ Fixes the issue experienced on sites with the Taboola tracker wherein tracker counts were inaccurate and the trust / restrict site functionality was disrupted.
Homepage:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../ghostery/
Release Date: 2016-03-04
OS: Windows / Android / iOS
Changelog:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../versions/
Download:
https://www.ghostery.com/download