Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery
4,342 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by flotilla, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by T3chN1nja, a month agoWhy did the developer or developers decide to do one of the dumbest redesigns? I don't buy the based on user input BS. Typical statement made by poor developer design. Yes I've done website and app design. Put the "Pause Ghostery" button back when you click on the icon. It's quicker vs going into the settings. Like why? I need to be able to quickly toggle the pause frequently and now it's more clicks for zero reasons. I can still pause my UBlock Origin that way right on the icon click. But in it's place you tell the user where to go find it. We want the pause button back!
Developer response
posted a month agoThanks for your message!
"Pause on this site" is back in the panel. Unfortunately you cannot make use of it on Firefox as the version carrying it is pending review with the Mozilla AMO team. It's released on all other browsers.
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 5 out of 5by 科技奇谈君, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15540150, a month ago
Developer response
posted a month agoMuchas gracias. ¡Apreciamos su reseña y apoyo! 💙
Lo mejor,
Equipo de Ghostery- Rated 5 out of 5by 画里有话坊, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jesus David Moncada Cano, 2 months ago
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for the stars! We appreciate your support!
We have a solution for these endless cookie popups and it affects only Firefox users. Unfortunately you cannot make use of the solution as we are stuck in the extension review process with Mozilla for now.
For any questions, please email us at support@ghostery.com
Best,
Ghostery Team- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18603384, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18376543, 2 months agoGreat extension. I also use it in Firefox and Edge.
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you! We appreciate your review and support! 💙
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 4 out of 5by Alex, 2 months agoI have used Ghostery for so long. It has blocked various ads and trackers, making feel safe while being on the internet. However, I think recently the extension had gone through an update of some sort. After the update, it has not been blocking any ads and there are so many pop ups. If this continues to happen, I might consider using a different extension.
Developer response
posted a month agoHi there, please make sure all Ghostery modules are turned on. If you still experience issues, please reach out to support@ghostery.com with more details. We would be happy to help fix it.
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 5 out of 5by 罗汉神打, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frank, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12729494, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12845766, 2 months agoFor about two weeks embedded 'Youtube' videos will not play on any websites. Filed a detailed report on Ghostery Support Page and have not had any response (That was a huge waste of time!). Worked great for years. Give it another day or two before I completely remove it. UPDATE: Support couldn't replicate. Asked for screenshot and other routine nonsense (I thought they were going to ask me to unplug Youtube and plug it back in! ) Never asked if I was signed into Youtube. That was the problem. CAN'T BE SIGNED INTO YOUTUBE. The only way around it is to turn-off AD TRACKING "globally" (every website) The specific Youtube site "exceptions" don't work as they should. I wonder how many people have this problem and just simply give up without contacting support and remove GHOSTERY. Might be many. One percent would be 10,000. Nah..I'm sure it's just me.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi & thanks for your message!
We only had one support request regarding embedded Youtube videos, which we replied to asking for examples of websites where this happens. We can only find solutions if we can reproduce the situation.
Thanks for your cooperation!
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 5 out of 5by Devesh Kumar Sharma, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18465886, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sebigbos, 2 months agoGhostery is a great anti-track and anti-ad tool with abundant possibilities to adjust it to your needs. But it works already great just out of the box.
The support is marvelous.
Thanks for this handy plugin.Developer response
posted 2 months agoMany thanks for your review! 💙💙
We're happy to be of service and help protect your privacy online!
Ghostery Team - Rated 5 out of 5by ARStKi4537, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dexis, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kali, 2 months agounfortunately it no longer blocks adds. Already submitted the screenshots before developer replies asking for them.
I'm also not buying hiding pause button deep into the settings was requested by users "forgetting to unpause" At least make it configurable?... Especially since there were already options easily accessible for "pause for X minutes" which could've been defaulted, instead of hiding the pause option.
all in all one of my favourite extensions gone completely now. good job.Developer response
posted a month agoHi there, we hope your problems have been fixed by the support team.
Also, we have updated the UI allowing to pause a site from the panel - now there are two options to do this.
Best,
Ghostery Team - Rated 5 out of 5by Gumese, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by snkiz, 3 months agoThe new v10 is broken, it isn't blocking anything. The new UI doesn't add anything but more clicks. Pause is now buried in a full page settings page that is full of white space and completely unnecessary. The time choice for pause has been removed. Trash update.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoHi there,
Thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
Sorry for your experience! We also replied via email.
Based on user feedback, usability tests and the redesign, we have moved the global pause button to Settings (accessible from Ghostery panel --> Burger Menu --> Privacy Protection) and have “Trust this site” available and accessible with one click which is scoped to pausing Ghostery on the present site only and for a selected time.
Many of our users were pausing Ghostery and forgetting to turn back on, so they were unknowingly and unwillingly browsing the web unprotected. We tried to fix that for the user group.
Regarding "The new v10 is broken, it isn't blocking anything." Can you please send us a screenshot of the Ghostery panel with a loaded website to support@ghostery.com? We would love to help fix this for you.
Best,
Ghostery Support - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18564841, 3 months agoWorks great, but they have moved pause button to a difficult to reach place making it useless. Please put it back.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoHi & thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
Based on user feedback and usability tests, we have moved the global pause button to Settings (accessible from Ghostery panel --> Burger Menu --> Privacy Protection) and have “Trust this site” available and accessible with one click which is scoped to pausing Ghostery on the present site only and for a selected time.
A bit of background for moving the global “Pause Ghostery” button to settings: Many of our users were pausing Ghostery for a specific local and time bound reason and forgetting to turn it on, so they were unknowingly browsing the web unprotected.
We hope this makes sense. For any questions, further feedback, comments, please message us anytime at support@ghostery.com.
Best,
Ghostery team - Rated 3 out of 5by thunderstrike23, 3 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 3 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