We don't track you. Don't care where you come from or where you go (or if you would have been married a long time ago).

You don't need blockers on our website. Always good to have them enabled but you should always see a "0" on any extensions like #Ghostery.

This is how the web should be. It was how it was. You see that "0" on #mastodon too which is why it's the best social media.

Roastinghouse.co.uk

European search engines

Czech Republic
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

I'm using #Firefox, and I have #AdBlocker and #Ghostery installed. I'm still getting some cookie requests. Why? What am I missing? Do I need to install ALL the cookie blocking apps? #internet #InternetOfShit

Ultimamente #Pinterest si è riempito di pubblicità, e infatti adesso uBlock Origin e tutti gli #adblock gli danno fastidio. Ti piacerebbe che lo disattivassi, eh?? E invece no! Ho messo anche #Ghostery su #Firefox

Nie spodziewałem się, że to kiedyś nastąpi ... :/

Zastąpiona przez fork #Mercury, który z kolei pozbierał różne patche liska z #LibreWolf, #Waterfox, #FireDragon, #PlasmaFox i #Ghostery.
Testuję też #floorp
Edit: I #ZenBrowser
A zamiast Thunderbirda, #Betterbird :)

Więcej o #Mercury tutaj -> https://thorium.rocks/mercury

If anyone is having touble using #YouTube on #Firefox with #Ghostery installed; Ghostery is interfering and removing it helps. uBlock Origin still works.

Whether you use its extension or switch entirely to its own hardened browser, Ghostery Privacy Suite blocks ads and trackers and keeps your searches private, all at no cost.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/ghostery-privacy-suite

@jwildeboer
> Ghostery is going down the dark path, they just whitelisted a lot of the typical ad networks for unknown reasons

Didn't one of the older tracking blockers go that way? Maybe it was AdBlock+ and that's why I moved to uBlock.

Me:
> Maybe time to replace uBlock Origin?

Guess not then.

@AAKL I’ve lost confidence in #Ghostery after it have been purchased in 2017. Strange things started to appear.
It has been the same with #AdBlockPlus

Bold statement in Apple's recent privacy ad that using Safari solves all tracking problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjDpPnxcP0

One thing to mention is that Safari supports extensions; it is more limited than on Firefox, but it works. Ghostery also has a Safari extension for iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostery-privacy-ad-blocker/id6504861501?platform=iphone

If you wonder why the app has little history (and only three reviews): two weeks ago, we moved the remaining Ghostery Inc parts to Ghostery GmbH. In the Apple store, it was surprising not possible to update the company. Thus, we had to create a new developer account and start from scratch. All Ghostery users that installed the app are now stuck on the old version and need to manually install the new one.

More details can be found in our blog post: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/adblocker-safari-app-migration

Ghostery 10 (Manifest V3) has just been released on Chrome.

That completes the Manifest V3 migration on all our supported Chromium platforms. Supporting MV3 was not easy: Ghostery 10 is a major rewrite, started around two years ago; except for the core of the adblocker engine, it is a complete new code base.

We are working hard on bringing back missing configuration options. Also, fixing the issues that have reported already when we released earlier on Opera and Edge.

If you run into a problem, our bug tracker is here:
* https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension/issues

If an individual website is broken:
* https://github.com/ghostery/broken-page-reports/

If you have a general question, you can also reach out to our support:
* https://www.ghostery.com/support

We plan to have more releases over the upcoming weeks and months. There is already a new release scheduled with some smaller fixes (10.3.5).

Since the Manifest V2 phase-out in Chrome is near, my two-cents on how browsers rank in their API support for adblocker extensions:

Firefox >> Chrome > Safari

Firefox already had a slight edge before because of its DNS API (needed to prevent CNAME cloaking). Now with MV3, the gap is getting higher after replacing blocking webRequest API by the more limited Declarative Net Request.

Chrome and Safari are close, and it is a bit apples and oranges. I would still rank Chrome higher for writing a adblocker extensions, because it has less bugs and the limits for the blocklists are less restrictive.

Especially, the latter is currently a problem on iOS: it is hard to debug, but from trial-and-error we learned that it only works reliably up to a certain limit. Thus, we had to disable certain blocklists on iOS.

Another disadvantage of MV3 extension is that the adblocker rules can only be partly updated without extension releases. Though most rules that cause breakage are on the level of cosmetics and scriplets (both not handled by the DNR API), rules that block requests can only be updated quickly on Firefox now. For instance, Ghostery will check for updates every hour. Extension releases, on the other hand, are more involved; they require more testing, and also going through reviews and can take days. Perhaps this will get smoother in the future, but currently the ecosystem is not ready for frequent releases.

Most other browsers are forks from Chromium or Firefox. Whether Chromium-based browsers will be able to keep support for MV2, time will tell. Browsers are complex, and once Google removes the code, it could be difficult to maintain it. On the other hand, the Ghostery Browser is based on Firefox. Fortunately, Mozilla stated that they will not remove the API unless there is a proper (full-featured) replacement.

But don't get me wrong. Even though Firefox is the best platform for adblocker extensions, it does not mean that Chrome or Safari extensions are not providing value. They will lack certain functionality and its filters may be more outdated, but most blocking will still work.

Ghostery 10 is now in review on Chrome. It is the first version to support to Manifest V3, meeting Google's deadline of June 2024.

Background: we have already released Ghostery 10 on the extension stores of the other Chromium-based browsers
(Opera & Yandex in February and Edge two weeks ago).

A challenging aspect of Manifest V3 is to support the same level of customization as in Ghostery 8. Instead of handling everything inside our own adblocker engine, there are now two components:
1. request blocking requires to use the new Declarative Net Request API
2. the adblocker engine (implemented in the extension) still handles all non-blocking aspects (scriptlets and cosmetics like hiding blank parts of a website that was reserved for ads)

We are still working on bringing back more customization options, so expect to see improvements over the upcoming weeks and months.

What about Firefox? It continues to support blocking webRequest API; thus, you can still use the old API and let the adblocker engine handle the blocking. When we eventually roll out Ghostery 10 out on Firefox, it will share the same UI with Chrome, but its privacy protection will be more capable. For instance, a feature like Anti-Tracking that modifies requests by removing tracking parameters cannot be implemented with the DNR API.