We’re really excited for this version of Ghostery for Firefox. Why? Because for one of our biggest questions from Ghostery users has always been, “Why can’t I see the comments/videos/social buttons on www.insertwebsitehere.com?” This release answers that question with a simple feature: Click-to-play content replacement. Now, if you find you are missing elements on...
We hit 1,000 trackers in our library today! Each one of these represents the hard work put in by Ghostery users who report them to us and help us make sure we don’t plug in any duplicates. It’s a reminder that making a great privacy extension requires a great userbase. Also, big ups to...
Thanks to everyone around the world for sending in their addresses. We’re printing out the envelopes right now and stuffing them with Ghosty stickers to mail out. Unfortunately, the deadline has passed to send in for them, but don’t worry – we’ll be doing more giveaways and other fun stuff in the future. For...
Update: Giveaway is over! Thanks for everyone who gave your addresses, stickers are being mailed out shortly. Also, to those who inadvertently posted your addresses in the comments, I’m not publishing those but I’ll still send them if they’re posted before the deadline! Ghosty’s got the travel bug! Over the next week, we’ll be...
Some people were having issues with a phantom update (get it?) for their Ghostery tracker lists. The list would update, but the new trackers weren’t being displayed. This has been fixed. To make the newly added elements visible, simply update your list again.
Firefox just posted on their blog that their Facebook fans “overwhelmingly’ recommended Ghostery as one of their favorite add-ons. Thanks for your support, Firefox Ghosterians! We’ll do our best to make sure we keep on making a product you love. As always, we look to you to give us suggestions on improving Ghostery. If...
Thanks to everyone that has submitted trackers to our development team here at Ghostery over the past two years, we’ve managed to amass a total of 886 trackers in our library. In fact, it’s the biggest repository of tracking scripts, pixels, LSOs, tags and other trackers on the the internet – and the internet...
We were flying our colors this year at South by Southwest, representing privacy in full force. In addition from meeting with some of the awesomest and most influential figures in the startup and media world, we had a lot of fun! Here’s a recap, in pictures (forgive the iPhone quality!): We attended some amazing...
Ghosty wins, of course. In the latest release of Ghostery for Firefox we fixed a bug that created “zombie compartments” for the last site Ghostery scanned for trackers. We also updated Ghostery’s options and options walkthrough pages to be a little bit easier to understand. If you used the cookie blocker alongside certain other add-ons,...
Ghostery for Safari 1.3.0 is now available. Following in the footsteps of recent Ghostery for Opera and Ghostery for Firefox updates, this latest release incorporates surrogate scripts. Surrogates are “dummy” scripts that Ghostery will use to replace commonly viewed content that can’t display without allowing tracking scripts, such as videos and widgets. For instance,...
