Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
191 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by eslsys, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12343100, 4 years agoWith Privacy Badger losing its manual controls, I decided to stop using that. Gave Ghostery another try. It works most of the time, but has too many problems. It's overzealous blocking things it's not supposed to block. For instance, I get only the blurry thumbnails for many Washington Post photos unless I turn off Enhanced Ad Blocking. It even keeps me logged out of that site unless EAB is disabled. Are you kidding me??? Ghostery also blocks Disqus by default on every site. I shouldn't have to manually unblock it on every site. That's a really dumb waste of my time. In the end, I switched back to Adblock Plus. Maybe not as comprehensive, but not a pain in the neck, either.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoGhostery offers global unblocking, so our users can unblock trackers and this setting will apply to all sites visited. Reach out to [email protected] for further assistance. Thanks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14584553, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Юрий, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by DJKJ, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by numberten, 4 years agoGhostery 8.5.1 seems to be messing up cursor in Windows 10 Insider build 20175.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, would you mind sending an email to [email protected] so we can look into it? Thanks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Pavi, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15307446, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13550227, 4 years agoBlocks most ads and pop-ups. But recently, not with YouTube. It does block the ad content but a "skip ad/5 sec" things still shows up.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the report! This is something we are currently looking into. Send us an email to [email protected] with any questions, thanks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13579791, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13219080, 4 years agoそもそも消えないのもありますが、オーバーレイ~プルダウンするタイプの広告だと、消えてくれても表示されるリンク先だけが消えて、(タグ自体は残ってるので)フレームと削除ボタンのみ残りスライドしてくる感じになったり。
- Rated 3 out of 5by Uwe Richter, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15879396, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15852622, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Lester Rogers, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by rosemadr, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by anton, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jim Babwe, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15261407, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by motang, 5 years agoIt was good and I was able to use it for what I need to do, but I noticed my hard drive was access 10 fold when I had this extension installed. I wonder about that, used it for a day and decided to remove it and now my system is back to normal. 🤔
- Rated 3 out of 5by franc, 5 years agoDas PopUp, das gesperrte Tracker zeigt lässt sich nicht deaktivieren. Das nervt auf einem kleinen Display. Deinstalliert.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13137740, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12388681, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by artie, 5 years agoJust a comment to the developers. For an extension that is supposed to block ads and make my browsing experience smoother and less annoying... you pulled a truly boneheaded move. The very first site I went to after installing the Ghostery extension was Quora, and before I even had a chance to login to that site, what happened?
GHOSTERY POPPED UP AN AD ASKING ME TO UPGRADE TO A PAID VERSION OF ITSELF!
Really? I mean, you couldn't at least wait a day or two for me to try it out first? My very first experience with your ad-blocking capabilities is an AD FROM YOU suggesting that I upgrade? What were you thinking?
It looks like a nice enough product if it does what it says it does, but you would think at the very least it would make a more intentional effort to follow its own guiding principles. It's somewhat hypocritical the way it happened.