Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
191 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by thunderstrike23, 2 months agoEver since the most recent update, it's had trouble detecting ads/trackers/etc on some sites. It'll say 'zero' and I'll get in-page popups and banner ads anyway. Also rather dislike that the 'restrict site' option appears to be missing now.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi there,
Thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
Please reach out to support@ghostery.com with a screenshot of the Ghostery panel and an example website where Ghostery is not detecting ads & tracking. We would be happy to help fix the issue if provided with more details.
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13434134, 2 months agoProbably still good, but they're losing the plot. It's unwieldy to go through the settings and even then you still don't know if the trackers are up to date. I had an account there but I wanted to change the password. Nope! You can change the email but not the compromised password. I tried a new account but some standard symbols aren't accepted. Good luck. I'd rather have the old version.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi there,
Thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
All your feedback is correct and we apologize for your experience!
- Re: "don't know if the trackers are up to date" - the TrackerDB is updated with every release but we will add a force-update to the settings to satisfy everyone.
- The password can be changed while not being logged in here: https://www.ghostery.com/forgot_password
For any questions, further feedback, comments, please message us anytime at support@ghostery.com.
Best,
Ghostery team - Rated 3 out of 5by ykjoy, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18443578, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by ComputerWiz, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Wayfinder, 4 months agoGhostery is sometimes great, sometimes not so great. I have seen it allow through multiple pop-up "Adult" ads (for X-rated games especially) while triggering the YouTube "We're about to stop your viewing" warning. I understand this is an ongoing war between Google and ad-blockers, and Google needs to wise up both in the number of ads it employs on YouTube and their length (a 30 second ad every 3 minutes on a video is ridiculous). And if Ghostery won't stop X-rated ads, what value is it?
This is a complex field and I sympathize with the company. It does stop a LOT of ads and the settings are versatile (allowing to restrict some sites while blocking others). But it doesn't really do all the job all the time... and the YouTube war is a real problem for the whole industry since Google seems to have no common sense whatsoever. - Rated 3 out of 5by MJcarlile, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15301370, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16122516, 8 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by BAZ.Andreas, 9 months agoAfter a time it just causes issues and have to disable it re enable it or just uninstall it and reinstall it weird this is new.
Some time also bugs out and cant click on links or just will broke the links.
Web page log in some time brakes as well.
Overall its good but to much to debug here.Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi there,
please reach out to support@ghostery.com with more details and some examples. We would be more than happy to help fix the issues you are experiencing!
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17565701, 9 months agoyes it helps but every few days it stops working and i need to remove it and install it again, does anyone know how to fix this problem?? its extremely annoying...
Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi there,
please reach out via https://www.ghostery.com/support with more details. We would be happy to help fix the issue you are experiencing!
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18165528, 10 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by EdD89, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tungstie, a year agoGhostery used to work fine, but something in Youtube's code changed in the last few hours (10.26.23) which makes the page not display at all (just a blown-up video vignette + a broken user menu) unless you disable Ghostery...
Fixed needed quickly please!Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi there, all ad blockers are confronted with the same problem. Please see further details here: https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/
Also please check our status page for more information: https://www.ghostery.com/status - Rated 3 out of 5by Marvin Finch, a year agoI used Ghostery for many years now and was very happy with it (= 5 stars). However, a couple weeks ago ads started to appear on websites again (and if you're not used to it, this is very annoying). I tried to get it to work again but no luck. Had to switch to another blocker and now I'm hassle free again. Thanks for the good time!
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi there, we're happy to have been of service for so many years! If possible, please reach out to support@ghostery.com. We would be happy to fix the issue if provided with more details. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17851394, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17969774, a year agoghostery won`t open when i click on it, no matter how many times i click, it wont open...and i am now getting adds during watching movies...
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi there, if possible please reach out to support@ghostery.com with more details and examples of sites where ads are not being blocked. We would be happy to help fix the issue you are experiencing! - Rated 3 out of 5by Selena, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Joy, a year agoIt seems to do a great job of ad blocking. Unfortunately, it also blocks videos from sites that I've subscribed to. For example, I belong to Herb Mentor on LearningHerbs.com. None of the videos will work with Ghostery enabled.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi there, if possible please reach out to support@ghostery.com with more details. As a quick fix you can "trust" the site LearningHerbs.com in the Ghostery panel and all should work as desired. Best, Ghostery Support - Rated 3 out of 5by Henrique, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17724062, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12745359, 2 years agoVous avez oublié ce qu'est un bloqueur de pubs, le votre a un sacré trou dans la raquette ce qui n'était pas le cas il y a quelques années.
Je suis passé sur ADGUARD - Rated 3 out of 5by Laurana, 2 years agoI like this module but since few days I found that my Twitter feed only shows around 7 and 8 tweets and nothing more if your extension is enabled on Twitter, it's fixed if I pause your extension (but I don't want to)