Ghostery is your window into the invisible web-tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior.
Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
Detect:
Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies
What's New
Version 1.2.0:
Improvements and more information in the configuration wizard.
Updated the bundled library.
The purple box no longer alerts when there is nothing new to report.
Safari Preferences' Extensions entry for Ghostery now has a note and a shortcut to the Ghostery options page.
Fixed URL encoding issues in company profile links. This fixed links for companies like Google+ and [x+1].
Fixed several purple alert display issues.
Added company affiliations to the library browser in the Ghostery blocking options.
Updated GhostRank to send library version (and not send individual element names)
Version 1.2.0:
Improvements and more information in the configuration wizard.
Updated the bundled library.
The purple box no longer alerts when there is nothing new to report.
Safari Preferences' Extensions entry for Ghostery now has a note and a shortcut to the Ghostery options page.
Fixed URL encoding issues in company profile links. This fixed links for companies like Google+ and more...
1) Does some of the work but not all: every time I have to go back to the preference: I blocked them all and no matter what only some are blocked and I saved my prefs.
2) It's already the second time I get a reminder in Safari that tells me a new Ghostery extension is out there but it's not. Today for example, I checked and it is still the 1.2 since September
It definitely does a good job but still needs some improvement
I like this! Gives much more control over the pieces of lint websites place on your computer than merely looking at cookies. Been using it for several hours now, checking every website I visit via the cute Ghostery menu icon. Nice that it also gives you filter choices. For now I'm blocking everything but that will probably change for a few of my favorite websites. So for there are no surfing ill effects blocking them all.
I'm using this extension for a couple of months now. It does what it says in a unobtrusive way. It's very interesting. But unfortunately Ghostery itself submits user data called "GhostRank". The developers should point that out more clearly in that macupdate page, i think. It can be deactivated in the extensions's prefs.
Activating GhostRank is the very first option you're offered when setting up Ghostery (it's deactivated by default.) Why should the developer explain something on MU that's explained at length on the first page of the setup wizard?
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Ghostery is your window into the invisible web-tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior.
Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
Detect:
Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
Learn:
After showing you who's tracking you, Ghostery also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we've found them are just a click away.
Control:
Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands.
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Katbel reviewed on 19 Nov 2011
2) It's already the second time I get a reminder in Safari that tells me a new Ghostery extension is out there but it's not. Today for example, I checked and it is still the 1.2 since September
It definitely does a good job but still needs some improvement
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dommy reviewed on 01 Nov 2011
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Arghn reviewed on 31 Oct 2011
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What, then, is this "update" about?
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Awado reviewed on 28 Jul 2011
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Nicolasd rated on 28 Jul 2011