Archive for July, 2010

3rd Party Scripts Slow Down your Browser

3rd Party Scripts Slow Down your Browser

In reviewing our recent user survey (thanks for all those who took the time to participate!) we (“we” as in Martin, our Senior Engineer) came across an interesting observation: Ghostery users reported better browser performance when running our extension. This prompted us to do some digging into the impact of 3rd-party scripts on page-load...

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Ghostery for Chrome v2.0

The Ghostery team is pleased to announce a v2.0 of Ghostery for Chrome – which includes script blocking functionality and whitelisting! Download the new version now, click on options, and click the “Enable Bug Blocking” checkbox under Blocking Options.  Under the Blocking Options tab you can also establish your site whitelist, allowing scripts to...

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Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go

Howdy Ghosterians, One of the really valuable things about our Ghostery community is when users contact us via email or our support forums to give us the heads-up on scripts they think should be added to our database.  Our users have helped us find invisible scripts of all kinds, including behavioral data trackers, other...

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Ghostery for Firefox v2.2.1

Hello Ghosterians, We’re excited to announce the release of Ghostery for Firefox v2.2.1. Get it here! Some improvements of note: added ability to whitelist local files per this suggestion Ghostery now recognizes frame-in-frame scripts added support for Firefox 4 betas added support for SeaMonkey 2.0 and 2.1 Also, the list of web bugs, trackers, widgets,...

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