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, [experimental] tag! As of v3.0, Ghostery for Chrome catches all trackers just as it does on Firefox.
Also new to v3.0 – surrogate script support. Certain scripts are known to break pages when blocked. Ghostery will now replace these scripts with dummy versions, which should help resolve common blocking conflicts. Let us know when something doesn’t work because of Ghostery’s blocking, and we will try to fix it for all Ghostery users!
You want even more release notes? No problem -
- Fixed the alert bubble display issue in Chrome 17+; addressed alert bubble security issues, plus fixed several display conflicts on various websites.
- Hid alert bubble from print documents.
- Tracker library updates now happen over HTTPS.
- Improved findings popup’s display of long names and URLs.
- Compressed images to reduce package size.
- Updated the bundled tracker library.
Try out the new version, give us feedback, and if you love it like we do, please give us a 5-star rating over at the Chrome extension gallery.
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Andy K
Ghostery Product Manager
andy [at] ghostery [dot] com
Awesome work, congratulations on reaching v3.0 stable. A happy Ghostery user.
Awesome — thanks! Now if you can just add the “block new bugs by default” option you have in Firefox, my life will be complete
Coming soon!
I use ghostery at the very long time, it’s a great piece of software, very effective.Speed of loading web pages has increased dramatically(+30-50%), I give a 5-star rating, good job.
Finally. Was going to uninstall because of the lack of catching all the trackers. Now I will absolutely keep it. Thanks ppl at Ghostery, loved your firefox version now Chrome has it all as well. 2 thumbs up.
Fantastic work, keep it up!
New version of Ghostery for Chrome 3.0.0 conflicts with Adblock Plus. Used to work together nicely. Now Chrome reports an error for Adblock Plus: “The extension wasn’t able to modify a network request because the modification conflicts with another extension (Ghostery).”
This is a superficial error and is going to be fixed in the next release! Thanks for letting us know, Carsten.
same problem with “HTTPS Everywhere version 2012.5.1″ extensions.
And ScriptNO. Thanks for all the hard work on this.
Same problem with me, adblock plus conflicts with ghostery 3.0.0 , but awesome work for blocking all these trakcers, love it
Support
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Hi Josh,
Thanks for using Ghostery.
AdBlock and Ghostery don’t actually conflict – this is a superficial error notice and we are working to make sure it doesn’t appear in the future.
Same thing with “https everywhere” , conflicts
I cannot seem to download and install ghostery for chrome. when I try to download says it is added to chrome but cannot find it and does not report blocked sites.
Does it show up in your “extensions” listings?
chrome://settings/extensions
I FOUND GHOSTERY IN THE CHROME WEB STORE.
Awesomeness**
I’m curious as to whether 3.0 will have any effect on Google’s most recent privacy policy changes (made on March 1, 2012). In other words, does it cancel out Google’s ability to track all your internet traffic? Of course, I understand that these drastic changes occurred only days before 3.0′s release.
You can use Ghostery to circumvent tracking by Google and other services if they are tracking in a 3rd-party manner. For instance, Ghostery will detect Google Analytics wherever you encounter it. Since you didn’t willingly “sign in” to Google Analytics, Ghostery counts this as something you may want to control and gives you the option to do so. If you are signed into a Google service, however, we can’t control the info you give over to them. My recommendation is to remain vigilant!
Everytime I try to add it to Rockmelt, I get an error. I have used it with Rockmelt prior but when the update installed, I lost the icon from the edge. I removed it and now trying to reinstall it… No Luck! Any suggestions?
Hi Jason,
Try asking our engineers in the support forums here: getsatisfaction.com/ghostery
This is extremely incredible and most helpful add on.Great job!
A bit annoyed at google.
Google chrome has now totally blocked the installation of the add in.
I’ve tried tgoing back to ver 9 to see if i chould trick the downloader, it said the minimum ver was 17.
so i downloaded that ver and installed it, but it just sits there and dosent actually install.
Do you have a stand alone installer for chrome available?
if not its the end of chrome for me and over to Firefox?
ps, works wonders in firefox.
Thank you.
Mac.
Hi,
Thanks for using Ghostery. Can you please submit this to support at ghostery dot com? We like to consolidate requests in order to address them quickly and make sure we can track them.
as soon as i try to dl the add on, crome web store gives me the following error: “This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled.” what’s wrong?
Not so sure. Can you please post the issue in our forums? http://www.getsatisfaction.com/ghostery
Thanks!!
I’m unable to install Ghostery on my Windows 7 laptop under the latest version of Chrome (12.0.742.112 m).
When I attempt the install, I get the message:
“This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled.”
Any suggestions?
Ah, after posting this, I spotted Adam’s reply to “gostwish,” who has the same question. I’ll post my query to the forum also.
> This is a superficial error and is going to be fixed in the next release! Thanks for letting us know, Carsten.
Still does it in 4.0.0…
I’m on version 4.0.0 and latest Chrome v 21 and I still get the error message:
Warning:
This extension failed to modify a network request because the modification conflicted with another extension (Adblock)
Any news when this annoying “superficial error” will be fixed?
This should have been fixed by now, Mark. Thanks for reporting it.