1400s, here we come!

1400s, here we come!

What do Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and Ghosty all have in common? The 1400s! We’re happy to announce that Ghostery now enables you to detect over 1,400 trackers. Happy web exploration, Ghosterians!

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Why reddit wins at advertising.

Why reddit wins at advertising.

Yesterday, reddit admin jenakalif announced that the company has partnered with AdZerk, an advertising and tracking company based out of North Carolina. That’s why reddit wins. They announced to their users that they were changing the way they do advertising and they asked for their feedback. reddit recognizes that the most important part of...

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Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

Hey Firefox Ghosterians. Just a quick update: Certain links were breaking – most of them from emails – if you had the last version of Ghostery installed. This release fixes that. You can download it here. Have a great day!

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Please VOTE for Ghostery on About.com for Best Privacy/Security Add-on!

Please VOTE for Ghostery on About.com for Best Privacy/Security Add-on!

Ghostery people: We need your support! Please vote for Ghostery on About.com to rank us as the Best Privacy Security Add-on of 2013!! You can use an pseudynym and email alias if you wish to remain anonymous. We’ll give you an internet hug.

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We’re watching you… at South by Southwest!

We’re watching you… at South by Southwest!

We’re sending some Ghostery crew to South by Southwest this year with a GoPro camera and a mission: How many people could we track into tracking awareness? Six of us are following conference attendees, filming them, and hopefully opening their eyes to just how much tracking is going on both in real life and...

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Thanks for the five-star support!

Thanks for the five-star support!

Sometime in the past week, we reached a five-star rating on Mozilla’s Add-On Gallery.  We wanted to thank all of you that use Ghostery for Firefox, rate the extension, and help us out by suggesting trackers to add, bugs to fix and features to include. We believe in our mission of more transparency and...

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Ghostery for IE Version 3.0.0 is Out!

Ghostery for IE Version 3.0.0 is Out!

At long last, we’ve released an updated version of Ghostery for Internet Explorer. We want to thank all of our IE Ghosterians for their patience, as it’s been a while coming. The first thing you’ll notice, after install, is that it looks totally different. That’s because we’ve updated it to look like the newer...

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Come Party with Ghostery in NYC for Data Privacy Day!

Come Party with Ghostery in NYC for Data Privacy Day!

We’re going to be celebrating  Data Privacy Day with drinks and ping pong in the Big Apple this year, and we want YOU to join us at 7pm on Monday, January 28th. We’ll be hanging out at Fat Cat in Manhattan – a great (21+) bar with a selection of fun games to play. Nothing...

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Twitter and Ghostery – the Blockage (Update: Works again!)

Twitter and Ghostery – the Blockage (Update: Works again!)

Recently (as in yesterday), Twitter changed something in their architecture that caused their “Compose Message” button to break when you have “Twitter Button” selected to be blocked in Ghostery’s options. In this instance, the button is meant to be blocked when it’s on other sites, or in other words when it’s a 3rd-party script....

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Ghosty goes on Holiday

It’s been a great year for Ghosty. In addition to traveling to millions of websites, he also got out into the real world. He’ll probably be taking off for the holiday season this year, too! Where are you going? Can he tag along with you next on your travels next year? We’ll be having...

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