Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
4,431 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13776587, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by m10bob, 7 years agoI had to remove this app from my system because it was preventing me from signing on to Disqus, which I use for the purpose of commenting on different news web sites.
The product does work to block ads, but this was "overkill" for my purposes, lolDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoHey there, you can whitelist the disqus tracker on that one page while continuing to block everything else. I'd be happy to walk you through the "site-selective whitelisting" feature we have - support@ghostery.com - Rated 4 out of 5by Наско, 7 years agoGhostery version 8.0.6.1 fixed the white flashes, but i just got the 8.0.7.0 version and the white flashes are back again.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13687430, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13765260, 7 years agoLove this addon but the last few releases have been broken for me, when I click the icon its blank and crashes the browser. I had to go back to to version 8.0.3.1 to get it working again. Firefox 58.0.1 Windows 10
Developer response
posted 7 years agoWe are pushing out a release today that should solve your issue. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Rated 5 out of 5by Marcus, 7 years agoI love Ghostery I've been using it since 2010 and loved it ever since.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13756847, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 10612562, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sAbotAge, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Almarhum, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frikun, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Varterral, 7 years agoFirefox 48.0.2, Windows 7
Ghostery
8.0.5.1 - doesn't work
8.0.4.4 - doesn't work
8.0.3.1 - works
After installing a new version, the Ghostery icon is not active. After clicking on it nothing happens - the Ghostery window is not displayed.
Does this mean that you have stopped supporting older versions of Firefox?Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey... we have an update coming out today. sorry for the inconvenience. - Rated 4 out of 5by Blaise Kal, 7 years agoI have the same issue as Наско, unstyled page flashes before CSS loads.
Firefox 58, Ghostery 8.0.5.1, Mac OS High Sierra, no other addons installed, default Firefox settings.Developer response
posted 7 years agoWe found the issue and working on a release now.. Sorry for the delay - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13750851, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13748704, 7 years agoGhostery works well, but sometimes it stops working for me. The ghost turns from blue to grey, stops working, and I can't even click on it to fix it. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey.. we have a fix for this coming in the next day or so.. sorry for the inconvenience. its specific to FFX 48, 49, 50.... 51 and up works as expected. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13743151, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nico, 7 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 7 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, 7 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, 7 years ago