Safari Tips

Tips and tricks for Ghostery for Safari

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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Start Fresh with Ghostery in the New Year

Start Fresh with Ghostery in the New Year

Happy New Year Ghostefarians!! We hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday season. We here at Ghostery have been hard at work on some exciting new features that we hope to get in your hands very soon! With the New Year upon us, it’s time to break out those resolutions… at least for...

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Reporting trackers, Ghostery, and Collusion

Reporting trackers, Ghostery, and Collusion

Hi Ghostery people. We’ve had a few questions about how Ghostery interacts with Collusion over the past few months, so we figured we’d give everyone a quick update. Krutika, one of our awesome Ghostery engineers, did a little research. She used the below sample entry from our tracker database to test different the browsers...

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Over the river and through the woods…

Over the river and through the woods…

Hello all in Ghostery land! With the holidays fast approaching, I’m sure many of you are wondering what to bring to the in-laws, relatives or whomever you are spending the holidays with… How about the gift of privacy on the web?   As you travel to the homes of loved ones, installing Ghostery on...

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Ghostery Usage Tip: Keeping Ghosty Quiet

Ghostery Usage Tip:     Keeping Ghosty Quiet

Hello to all on the inter webs! Pete here from Ghostery Product Support. I’m going to start blogging to you all a few times a month about some common topics I get through the support channels. The past few weeks, users have been asking how to turn off the alert bubble, but to continue...

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Complications and Botherations

Complications and Botherations

Hi Ghosterians, Here’s an update on a couple of lingering issues out in Ghosteryland: 1) Safari’s setup wizard bug. Still waiting on Apple to approve the fix (submitted on August 9th).  It’s probably because they lost one Safari extension tester last month. You can hit the Safari feedback form and let them know you’re...

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If you’re having setup problems I feel bad for you son. (Safari)

If you’re having setup problems I feel bad for you son. (Safari)

Setup wizard keep popping up in Safari? Here’s why (and how to fix it): You are probably automatically clearing local storage on your computer. This could be due to an addon or program such as Safari Cookies. We’ll be updating Ghostery for Safari in the next release to take care of this, but in...

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Facebook Messaging/Chat Bug Fixed

Facebook Messaging/Chat Bug Fixed

If you were having problems using Facebook messaging or chat functions over the past few days, this has been fixed. Apparently, scripts were zigging where they should have been zagging (according to Felix). Update Ghostery, and things should go back to normal. Carry on!

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The Wizard and The Ukraine…

The Wizard and The Ukraine…

Greetings GhostaSafarians, Just wanted to let you know how to fix a small glitch that the extension Safari AdBlock and the program Safari Cookies have with Ghostery. If you are using Safari Cookies and you keep seeing the Ghostery Setup Wizard (the screen where you select your options) when you start the browser up,...

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