Archive for November, 2011

Biggest Lagger: The Top Ten Elements that Slow Your Internet Down (US)

Biggest Lagger: The Top Ten Elements that Slow Your Internet Down (US)

Thanks to our awesome GhostRank Panel volunteers, we can (as most of you know) monitor the internet and most of the 3rd party content on it. Out of the nearly 800 companies we watch, we pegged these guys as the ones that lag your browsing experience the most if you live in the USA....

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Fix: Ghostery for Opera 0.9.3

Fix: Ghostery for Opera 0.9.3

Some Ghostery for Opera (Beta and Next) users brought a bug to our attention recently: the dropdown menu would often appear blank. We contacted the awesome Norwegians at Opera about this, and they said it’s on their shortlist of fixes, but in the meantime we’ve patched over the issue with a small fix of...

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Introducing Know Your Elements (.com)

Introducing Know Your Elements (.com)

We’re very happy to announce our newest gem: Know Your Elements. Thanks to everyone who opts into GhostRank, we have some pretty impressive information about which companies are sprawling across the internet. For awhile, we struggled to visually interpret this data – until the idea for the Periodic Table of 3rd Party Elements (3pes)...

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Ghostery for Firefox 2.6.2

Ghostery for Firefox 2.6.2

Hello, France and Germany! The latest version of Ghostery for Firefox has updated and localized language for our friends across the pond. Responding to some of your bug reports, we’ve also fixed some things up. Ghostery now blocks and reports better than ever, and we’ve stopped the alert bubble from flickering while the page...

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