Archive for March, 2012

Privacy Geeks in Paradise: Ghostery @ SXSW

Privacy Geeks in Paradise: Ghostery @ SXSW

We were flying our colors this year at South by Southwest, representing privacy in full force. In addition from meeting with some of the awesomest and most influential figures in the startup and media world, we had a lot of fun! Here’s a recap, in pictures (forgive the iPhone quality!): We attended some amazing...

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Epic Battle: Ghost vs Zombie – Ghostery for Firefox v2.7.2

Epic Battle: Ghost vs Zombie – Ghostery for Firefox v2.7.2

Ghosty wins, of course. In the latest release of Ghostery for Firefox we fixed a bug that created “zombie compartments” for the last site Ghostery scanned for trackers. We also updated Ghostery’s options and options walkthrough pages to be a little bit easier to understand. If you used the cookie blocker alongside certain other add-ons,...

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Block Your Brains Out – Ghostery v3.0 for Chrome is here

Block Your Brains Out – Ghostery v3.0 for Chrome is here

Ghostery for Chrome is all grown up – v3.0 is available now, full of improvements. First and foremost, thanks to a new and improved API from Chromium, Ghostery for Chrome now has complete detection and blocking! Goodbye forever, tag! As of v3.0, Ghostery for Chrome catches all trackers just as it does on...

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Ghostery for Safari v1.3 – Send us Your Broken Pages!

Ghostery for Safari v1.3 – Send us Your Broken Pages!

Ghostery for Safari 1.3.0 is now available. Following in the footsteps of recent Ghostery for Opera and Ghostery for Firefox updates, this latest release incorporates surrogate scripts. Surrogates are “dummy” scripts that Ghostery will use to replace commonly viewed content that can’t display without allowing tracking scripts, such as videos and widgets. For instance,...

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