Ghostery for Opera 0.9.5 – Introducing Surrogate Scripts!

February 3, 2012
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Ghostery for Opera 0.9.5 is live! We’ve made some significant changes, the most important of which is our inclusion of surrogate scripts.

Surrogate scripts are non-tracking scripts that we inject when Ghostery blocks content from loading, in order to make the content function appropriately. Previously, you may have been watching a video that couldn’t work without a certain element that tracks you. Your choice, while using Ghostery, was either to allow tracking and view the video or to not watch the video at all. Our new addition of surrogate scripts allows you to now watch this video free of tracking!

This is a new feature, and we’re looking to improve it to make your Ghostery browsing experience even smoother. If you notice some broken content that you think we can provide a surrogate for, please let us know on our forums so we can write a replacement for it: www.getsatisfaction.com/ghostery

 

Full list of updates:

  • Added surrogate script support. Certain scripts are known to break pages when blocked. Ghostery will now replace these scripts with dummy versions. This 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!
  • Removed the blank findings popup workaround: back to properly-sized findings popups.
  • Bug library updates now happen over HTTPS.
  • Updated bundled bug library.
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11 Responses to Ghostery for Opera 0.9.5 – Introducing Surrogate Scripts!

  1. joe on February 9, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    How do you tell what version of ghostery you have installed currently on opera? I looked but there is no version number, only a last-updated-bug date.

    • Alexei on March 8, 2012 at 10:08 pm

      Hi Joe,

      Click on Ghostery’s toolbar button, and then click on the question mark button on the bottom of the findings popup to access Ghostery “about” page.

  2. mustafa on March 1, 2012 at 10:18 am

    some videos doesn’t load on enabling blocking animecrazy speedy joe and other mrror sites

  3. catch 22 on March 7, 2012 at 8:18 am

    The opera add-on link generates an error page when I go to it using Opera. It serves up just fine when I use Firefox. When I tell Opera to pretend it is FireFox the page loads properly but then of course will not install the add-on claiming an extention error… ‘absurd’ seems to be a good word for this situation.

  4. LH on March 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    I want Ghostery for Maxthon. ;)

  5. EnPassent on March 30, 2012 at 2:25 am

    Thank you so much! Opera + Ghostery created great harmony.

    p.s. If your reading this, be sure to right click “Ghostery” than add word to dictionary :P

  6. Kalle on May 8, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Yes when is Ghostry comming to Maxthon 3?

  7. lee mills on July 31, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    Responding to messages is blocked

  8. Team M-metropolis on August 15, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    Hello, an update for Opera 12.50 Ghostery is expected when? Ghostery because Firefox is made ​​often enough days but Opera is forget?

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