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...
Howdy Ghosterians! It’s our pleasure to announce today the release of Ghostery for Opera, beta version 0.9! You can download Ghostery for Opera at the Opera extension gallery (http://mygho.st/opera) . First, we owe a lot of thanks to Ghostery users who simply would not let us dismiss the idea of Ghostery for the Opera...
What happened? It’s kind of a long story, but in updating our list of detectable page elements last night, we broke something. If you choose to block, Ghostery may report a small handful of elements as being blocked when they actually aren’t. If you don’t block, you can stop reading here and check this...
Hello Ghosterians! A brand-spanking-new version of Ghostery for IE is ready for your downloading pleasure! Version 2.4.2 includes official support for IE9, better page scanning, and general under-the-hood performance improvements to make Ghostery in IE run faster than ever. If you have a previous version of Ghostery for IE installed, you need to uninstall...
Internet Win of the Day: Zynga
Zynga updated their privacy policy today to include something both unprecedented and amusing: a game. While it doesn’t exactly include the gameplay of Super Mario Kart and it isn’t as addicting as the Facebook app behemoth’s Farmville, it’s a prime example of how companies should be interacting with users around privacy. In contrast to...
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