Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
617 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Chessire, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by steve113, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by JanS, 7 years agoI've relied on Ghostery for years to give me granular control over trackers. As an online seller, I need to enable certain trackers on certain sites only, so the global blocking offered by other privacy managers doesn't work for me. HOWEVER, I'm having issues with the add-on for Firefox on Android (Nougat on phone; have settings in Lollipop on tablet). It shows me bunches of trackers, some of which are definitely nonessential and are flagged as slowing down the browser, but there is no ghost icon and noplace to access settings so I can block trackers by class or block/trust individually the way I can on my desktop. In addition, I keep getting a Firefox popup on my phone saying that Ghostery's script is unresponsive. So 5 stars for desktop but not so many for phone.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14087957, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13490340, 7 years agoKeeps Unsolicited Adds & FACEBOOK Junk out of my computer! Thats a GOOD THING!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14079803, 7 years agoIt's not possible to remove the purple circle in the version for Firefox on Android. The thing is useless and should be off by default anyway. Good add-on otherwise. Unlike ad blockers it blocks both ads and trash scripts that websites are clogged up with, and it does it without using any resources. Speeds up browsing so much it was the only way to use a 2004 laptop for internet. Some people say it sells your data but I couldn't care less about that.
Edit: What I said was assuming you turned off the new three options "enchanced blocking" and the other two in custom setup. If you blocked the trackers you wanted to block then those options don't serve a purpose and they slow things down. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14078416, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14078296, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13311615, 7 years agoThe software is good but I don't know how to restore to the default settings.
元件很好用 但是我不知道如何重置為預設設定. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14074141, 7 years agoLove the way how you can choose the way you want your AD Blocker to work... 9/10 I would personally rate this. Use to use UBlock Origin now have moved on to Ghostery!
- Rated 4 out of 5by 27aume, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lorelli65, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14068343, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14066366, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14060254, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by relem, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ricky, 7 years agoThis is an extension developed by an advertising company. Use Privacy Badger (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/) instead.
EDIT: Well, turns out I was completely wrong, Ghostery seems to have been acquired by a more trustworthy company. I'm changing this review to a positive one.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi there, we are not an advertising company. We are owned by a German privacy company. See here for more info:
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/ - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14051501, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14034474, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by nps75, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14027313, 7 years agoОчень неплохо. Только раздражает некоторое неудобство в гибкой настройке.