Some people were having issues with a phantom update (get it?) for their Ghostery tracker lists. The list would update, but the new trackers weren’t being displayed. This has been fixed. To make the newly added elements visible, simply update your list again.
It was worse for me than that but you probably already read the e-mails by now. It started working early this morning when it updated to 940. Thanks for getting that straight.
please block Taboola
Too many updates.
Too many updates.
Too many updates.
Too many updates.
Too many updates.
See, it’s really annoying, right?
Stop showing which sites you blocked every time I load a page or click a link – even to a site I did not block with ghostery (disqus).
You blocked it cause I don’t want to see it, now I have to see a popup?
I don’t want to see it, read about, or hear about it.
It makes no sense and it’s worse than being tracked!!!
If it is to prove how cool your software is, it is doing the opposite. Not cool.
I could easily dump ghostery for that reason. STOP IT!!!!
thank you.
If you don’t want to see the popup, just change the settings of the extension. It’s not brain surgery. Just untick the “show alert bubble” box. Geez.
Thanks for using Ghostery. You can totally just turn the popup off in Ghostery’s options, and then you will no longer have this problem.
@ Stu. Firstly, the manner in which you wrote your comment sounds extremely demanding. If you take the time to read just a little you will notice the options enable you to configure exactly that. Secondly, you are more than wrong: it is not worse than being tracked and you are exagerating your irritations. You have the wrong idea all around and sound to be quite impatient. Read the help and explore the advanced options screen. You just might learn something.
I believe it’s possible to choose NOT to see the pop-up list by going to the Ghostery options page. I choose to see the list but have chosen to see it for a minimal amount of time. Sometimes it’s useful to see what’s on the list because, upon occasion, an item has become unblocked for some unknown reason. Then I can go back to options and block the item.
We have something that’s good and FREE, enuf said….thank you!
Reporting from the Nightly channel ‘again’: Ghostery’s library auto-update seems to work flawlessly, but for me it looks like the new elements aren’t blocked on default, even thought I have it enabled. Using FF 15.0a1 x64 version.
as Ghostery blocks Tumblr functionality it would be nice to be able to whitelist subdomains, something as *.tumblr.com
Hi,
We’re currently working on something just like this, in the meantime there’s a workaround. Here’s the relevant support thread! https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/topics/how_to_configure_ghostery_to_allow_tumblr_buttons
Since yesterday “update bug lists” are failing, both when invoked through Option and the Ghostery icon on the addon bar. FF 12.0, Ghostery 2.7.2
It was a minor bug that we just fixed. Should be working now!
yes, working fine now
Hi
I get this, Facebook, Twitter and God knows what..all the time.
I don’t like neither. I send emails to my friends and ‘talk’ to them
in person – not in mass.
How do I stop all this ‘shit’ from tracing me
whatever I do on the computer ?
Greatful for help
how do i get rid of GHOSTERY from my computer??? I do not want it.
Greetings,
Thanks for trying Ghostery!
I’m sorry to hear that you want to uninstall it. May I ask why, so I can provide our engineers and privacy team with feedback?
Here’s instructions for all of the different browsers on how to properly uninstall Ghostery:
Firefox(Mac):
1. Navigate to the “Tools” menu at the top of the screen.
2. Select “Add-Ons” from the options.
3. Select the “Extensions” tab.
4. In the Extensions menu, select “Ghostery” and then “Remove”
5. Restart your browser and you’ll be all set!
Firefox(Windows):
1. Click on Firefox Drop down
2. Select “Add-Ons” from the options.
3. Select the “Extensions” tab.
4. In the Extensions menu, select “Ghostery” and then “Remove”
5. Restart your browser and you’ll be all set!
Safari:
1. Navigate to the “Safari” menu
2. Click on the “Preferences” option
3. Click on the “extensions” tab
4. Click “Uninstall”
Chrome:
1. Navigate to chrome://extensions
2. Find Ghostery
3. Press the “Uninstall” button
Internet Explorer:
1. Go to “Control Panel”
2. Select “Programs”
3. Select “Uninstall a Program”
4. Select Ghostery
Opera:
1. Navigate to the “Tools” menu at the top of the screen.
2. Select “Extensions” from the options > “Manage Extensions”.
3. In the window that pops up, select “Ghostery” and then “Uninstall”
4. Restart your browser and you’ll be all set!
It’s temporary. Since installing, I can’t run videos from sites like OMG, etc. Or from news sites. It may not be the fault of Ghostery, but I removed it to see if I can now run them.
The videos just won’t load. Or it may be the Vista OS on my laptop. Trying to decide.
Hi George,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Videos on OMG have embedded trackers. Most of them work if you unblock FacebookConnect.
This is Ghostery blocking trackers. So this is expected behavior.
Hope that helps!