Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
409 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by James Pirretti, 15 days agoWhile using this extension it attempted to block a legitimate website. When I clicked allow I got a message to use a foreign virus scanner.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16366541, 15 days agoyou dummies! v8.12.11 suddenly no longer appears/works in private browsing. MAJOR FAIL!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14764628, a month agoThe privacy policy It makes me very upset and raises many doubts about the data we are sharing with you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by masumkurt, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Danohall, 3 months agoHave auto update enabled, but for the past year, it never shows the library as having actually updated unless I manually do it. Several emails to Ghostery and they still can't/won't fix the issue. They keep saying "it's updating even though it doesn't look like it is." Even tried uninstalling/reinstalling app but no change.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi there,
We understand your frustration! Sorry for that! The Ghostery tracker library updates automatically every 24h but the date does not change in the UI, except you update it manually. The support team communicated this in our email conversations.
We are funneling all our efforts towards an extensively reworked version of Ghostery, adapting to upcoming changes imposed upon browser extensions developers by major industry players.
For more insights into these advancements, we encourage you to explore the following resource: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/category/manifest-v3.
While this is no excuse, we also have a substantial user interface update in the pipeline where the issue you mention will be addressed.
Please have a bit more patience! We're happy to be of service and help protect your privacy online!
Ghostery Team - Rated 1 out of 5by Rochelle Shepherd, 3 months agoIt does not work at all. I keep experiencing pop up advertising, and game apps from Google Play Store every minute. Even on Netflix it is constant and extremely frustrating. I installed Firefox as well with Ghostery and it has not worked.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoHi there, if possible please reach out to [email protected]. It sounds as if Ghostery is not active. We would be happy to help fix the issues you are experiencing if provided with the opportunity and more details.
Best,
Ghostery Team Developer response
posted 3 months agoHi there, if possible please reach out to [email protected] with more details. We would be happy to help fix the issue if provided with more details.
What we know at the moment is that sometimes Youtube shows the message "You're offline. Check your connection." Simply reloading the page helps fix this based on our research.
Best,
Ghostery Team- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18295399, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by hhh, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Daealis, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bernard, 4 months agoNot compatible with FF 122.0.1
A 'must have' tool with an ensemble of blockers, never fails. Also, never works with the latest FireFox update. I need to enable Ghostery every page, every restart.Developer response
posted 4 months agoHi there,
if possible please reach out to [email protected] with more details. We would be happy to debug this together and fix the issue, if provided with more details.
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 1 out of 5by jared, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17970086, 6 months agoThey sell your data. And you don't even need it between Ublock and Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection.
https://www.eleconomista.es/business-insider/noticias/4921689/06/13/REPORT-Web-AdBlocking-Company-Sells-User-Data-To-Advertisers.htmlDeveloper response
posted 6 months agoHi there,
Ghostery is committed to protecting your privacy!
The article you mention is from 2013 and refers to a time where Ghostery was owned by Evidon. In 2017, Evidon sold Ghostery to Cliqz GmbH, a German company which amongst other things developed the privacy search engine now owned by Brave. Ghostery GmbH is an independent brand and company located in Munich, Germany.
Ghostery Team - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18115780, 8 months agothe cookie part of this extension almost never works when ad blocking is disabled, and often doesn't work even in extremely popular sites, and i already have an adblock, i just want a cookie extension that fucking works
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18081542, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by qhakazay, 9 months agoi can't really say much, since i had much more adblocks but after adding this specific one my youtube website started lagging so much that am glad i figured out it was this add-on...
Developer response
posted 6 months agoHi there, please reach out to [email protected]. We can help you set it up there.- Rated 1 out of 5by George Tirebiter, 10 months agoEveryone says it's a great addon. I wonder if they all got paid to say that. I can't even get the dern thing to install. Another chunk of garbage that makes Android continue to suck.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoHi there, please reach out to [email protected]. We can help you set it up. - Rated 1 out of 5by it's 39, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14034608, 10 months agoIt works well on chrome but terribly on Firefox. I see ads everywhere with the extension enabled.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoHi there, if possible please reach out to [email protected] with examples of sites where you see ads. Thanks! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18005252, 10 months ago