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Update: Ghostery v.1.4.2 for Safari

April 1, 2013
By Pete
Update: Ghostery v.1.4.2 for Safari

Ahoy Ghostery users on Safari! In our ongoing effort to make Ghostery more secure, we are releasing an update that now transfers Ghostrank data via HTTPS. We also updated the bundled tracker and surrogate libraries. Download it here or visit the Apple extension store in the “Security” category. If you love Ghostery and want to...

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Why reddit wins at advertising.

March 22, 2013
By adam
Why reddit wins at advertising.

Yesterday, reddit admin jenakalif announced that the company has partnered with AdZerk, an advertising and tracking company based out of North Carolina. That’s why reddit wins. They announced to their users that they were changing the way they do advertising and they asked for their feedback. reddit recognizes that the most important part of...

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Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

March 20, 2013
By adam
Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

Hey Firefox Ghosterians. Just a quick update: Certain links were breaking – most of them from emails – if you had the last version of Ghostery installed. This release fixes that. You can download it here. Have a great day!

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Please VOTE for Ghostery on About.com for Best Privacy/Security Add-on!

March 19, 2013
By adam
Please VOTE for Ghostery on About.com for Best Privacy/Security Add-on!

Ghostery people: We need your support! Please vote for Ghostery on About.com to rank us as the Best Privacy Security Add-on of 2013!! You can use an pseudynym and email alias if you wish to remain anonymous. We’ll give you an internet hug.

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We’re watching you… at South by Southwest!

March 8, 2013
By adam
We’re watching you… at South by Southwest!

We’re sending some Ghostery crew to South by Southwest this year with a GoPro camera and a mission: How many people could we track into tracking awareness? Six of us are following conference attendees, filming them, and hopefully opening their eyes to just how much tracking is going on both in real life and...

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New and Fancy! Ghostery for Firefox V.2.9

February 27, 2013
By Pete
New and Fancy! Ghostery for Firefox V.2.9

New patch: There was an issue reported that certain trackers were not being blocked when checked off. This included the Google AJAX Search API Widget. That wasn’t cool, so we fixed it. Thanks to everyone that let us know about it so quickly! You can read the full release notes here. Hello all Ghostery...

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