We’re really excited for this version of Ghostery for Firefox. Why? Because for one of our biggest questions from Ghostery users has always been, “Why can’t I see the comments/videos/social buttons on www.insertwebsitehere.com?” This release answers that question with a simple feature: Click-to-play content replacement. Now, if you find you are missing elements on a page, you will see a picture of Ghosty telling you what was blocked from view. So far, it works for Disqus, BrightCove, Intense Debate and most social buttons. Download it here and let us know what you think!
[UPDATE] Here’s a video that explains how to use click-to-play:
And here’s the full list of updates in v2.8 for your reading pleasure:
- Content policy and dom scanner now comprise a single “true” reporting engine. What that means in practice is that Ghostery will attempt to produce best possible list results by combining what content policy “saw” pass through it and what dom scanner “sees” on any given page. This will also prevent failure of either part (content policy or dom scanner) from completely shutting down Ghostery.
- Tracker priority is now in place, meaning that some of the tracker entries will now have elevated or lowered priority, with vast majority remaining “regular”. The priority matters in cases where have generic matching for example: DART or OpenX and the places where a tracker is sub-tracker, for example, any privacy entry.- Click-to-play overlays have been introduced for Brightcove, Disqus, Intense Debate, and several social buttons-
- Wizard has been modified slightly: now with arrows
- options/wizard have indeterminate boxes for categories that are partly selected
- Ghosty on the navigation bar now behaves like Chrome release: if for any reason, the page is “unblocked” it will be gray instead of blue
I just got notice of the new update and plan to download it as soon as I’m done writing this comment. Thanks for all you do to protect my privacy from being pirated and possibly misused.
good
thanks!
looks good lol
Will Ghostery for Safari be getting some love soon? Particularly auto-blocking new apes?
Yes! A big update is on the way.
Cool. Does this fix the issue where if eBay Stats is blocked links from their Daily Deals e-mails don’t work (because they’re using js from their stats server to redirect instead of proper 302 codes?)?
I hope so.
Hmmm…
? Sorry, but …
At the downloadsite (http://www.ghostery.com/download) someone dit misspell, or..!? Because, I read there “CURRENT VERSION 2.7.1″, but I got in my Firefox Version 2.7.2!
And at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/ I read 2.8.0.1 ! Ups…?
AmoRomA
Thanks for the heads up! We are updating now!
this plug in should spread out in places like this video
from TED http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html
to help people controller this tracking sensation.
Excelente désde que lo coloqué por primera ves en Firefox, lo instale luego en Comodo Dragon, muy buen trabajo el de ustedes señores! siendo invalorable la guardia que el software realiza.
Bienvenida la nueva version de Ghostery v2.8.1 a mi me resulta y lo recomiendo.
Arriba gente un abrazo y excelente su producto…
Fantastic update! Thanks very much for these new features, Ghostery team! =D
Will there some day be an option to automatically enable new trackers added via updates? So far I have to visit the ghostery options every now and then to check if there were new trackers added via update and then have to click “select all” again to enable blocking of all trackers.
Hi Jens,
available in the advanced tab of Ghostery options > Auto Update section > “Block New Elements by Default”
I love ghostery thumbs up. i hate stats thumbs down
I really don’t like the new “click to view” icons. I thought it was a bug, just posted about it on the forum. Didn’t know there was this silent update. These little icons with the logos of Facebook & whatever look like little adds to me. I’m fine with the updates of the library, but is there any way to prevent auto-updates of the addon itself? I’d really like to revert to the previous version. Please help, this program is a godsend. Thanks
Hi Robert – you can turn them off in Ghostery’s options!
I have not found a way to turn off the click-to-play option, an option I truly dislike.
Hi Ronnie,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
go to the advanced tab of the options menu.. there you will see the Click 2 Play section. Uncheck, save and reload browser.
OMG ME. EITHER! I got Ghostery so I didn’t have to see those crap social buttons, but the last few weeks I’d been seeing that damned ghost stuck on buttons all over websites and thought something was broken. I just left the sites. Pessed. Tonight finally got irritated enough to look it up (good blog btw), but yeah, that’s a pretty big update to slip by without a warning page. An illustrated, obnoxious warning page so we don’t ignore it. Anyway I turned that crap off in advanced settings and am back to reasonable browsing.
Great work, but there should be an option to automatically select all blocking options after database update. Users shouldn’t be forced to do this manually every time they update bug list.
Greetings przemek,
available in the advanced tab of Ghostery options > Auto Update section > “Block New Elements by Default”
Thanks for one, if not the best Firefox addons I use.
Should get the Nobel Prize for Privacy
I was pleased to see that setting ‘Automatic Updates’ did update my Ghostery to the 2.8 release! Excellent program!
Thank you SO MUCH. You guys are brilliant and there are many of us who reeeeeeeeally appreciate what you do for us!!!
Is there a version of Ghostery that works with Firefox for Android?
Hi George,
Currently the mobil solution we have for ghostery is for iPhone.
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You all do a very “GREAT JOB” continuously protecting all of the Ghostery users personal privacy,usage & web-surfing all over the internet!!! Thank you very much!!! Your continued free updates to Ghostery is “GREATLY APPRECIATED”. Thank you…
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The new update is great and fast !
Thanks for the good work Guys !!!
Can you add one time click to play rather than allowing the 3pe permanently?
All replaced content is one-time click-to-play unless you see the double arrow, as indicated in the graphic above.
I would love to fool the trackers with dud information
Page not found when trying to download . Mozilla also have a broken link so you can’t download it.
its working again
i like ghostery
i like this
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Thanks!
When is Ghostery for Firefox Android coming out. I have an Asus tablet and I want ghostery on my Firefox for Android, real bad.
Hi Scott,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Android Ghostery for firefox is a few months away.. We are excited to get this out!