We wanted to take a minute to thank all of the people who have submitted critiques, feature suggestions, and bugs for Ghostery over the past few months. Thanks to you guys, we now track more than 300 page elements (!) and have the most user-friendly privacy tool on the Internet. Here’s a list of...
Sadly, the next version of Ghostery for Firefox (v2.4) will drop support for FFX versions 3.0 and under. After doing some research we discovered that only about 3% of our beloved Ghosterians actively used versions below this release, and it has been putting added strain on the rest of our users. If you want...
We here at Ghostery are no strangers to customer satisfaction tools. UserVoice and GetSatisfaction are exemplary web products that really make taking care of updates, concerns, and feedback a snap. Ghostery is set to find their widgets, monitor them, and allow our users to disable them if they want. For those of you that...
In a recent Ghostery version, we introduced an options walk-through with the hopes of giving users some more context around how Ghostery could be configured. Unfortunately, we missed a glitch that launched the walk-through over and over, and we didn’t give users the opportunity to skip it. Both were pretty dumb mistakes – we...
Apparently, Algemeen Dagblad (General Daily), Holland’s second largest newspaper, gave us a full-page shout out. We think this is awesome
Protecting the Privacy Product
Collectively, the last few years have been one long coming-out party for online privacy. The FTC held well publicized privacy roundtable discussions. A highly visible online privacy bill was introduced in Congress (and several others followed behind it). Facebook and Google got caught up in a media privacy frenzy. The the Wall Street Journal released a series of articles...
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