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Home > Forums > Desktop Software > Browser issues > Browser issues for IT professionals Forum

Ghostery Add OnHelpful Member!(6) 

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goombawaho (MIS)
23 Mar 11 12:30
Maybe old news to some but interesting to me.  See what advertising/trackers/garbage is running on any web page, what they are/do and block them if you want to.

Ghostery     http://www.ghostery.com

I had always wondered why IMDB.com was sluggish to load pages.  Well, according to that software, it has about 10 items running on each page.
Helpful Member!  ANFPS26 (TechnicalUser)
23 Mar 11 13:32
So far I love this add-on. I'm using it with Firefox 4.0. Web pages load faster. Thanks for the tip!

Jim

 
ANFPS26 (TechnicalUser)
23 Mar 11 14:50
Firefox 4.0 also has an option under the Options-Advanced tab for
a similar feature:

"Tell websites I do not want to be tracked."

I checked it, too, along with adding Ghostery.

Jim

 
jlockley (TechnicalUser)
5 May 11 13:55
thank you gw. I wanted to send a star, but the site gremlins won't let me.  
Helpful Member!(5)  goombawaho (MIS)
7 May 11 8:42
Everybody else gave me a star successfully.  What gremlins?  That's one problem I want fixed LIKE NOW.
mscallisto (TechnicalUser)
7 May 11 10:51
Thanks gw

I tried Ghostery for two weeks and like it very much, it's amazing to see how many people are trying to sneak into my pc. Along with Mozilla's "I don't want to be tracked" option and controlling my third party "cookies" I seem to be running more crisply than before.

Have a splat if the gremlins permit.

Sam
 
webrabbit (MIS)
8 May 11 10:05
I installed Ghostery and have received zero hits.  Perhaps this is because I have NOD32 from Eset.
goombawaho (MIS)
9 May 11 7:58
If you go to www.imdb.com and you don't get anything, then either something else is blocking items or you don't have it configured properly.
MarcLodge (Programmer)
17 May 11 6:26
I installed it for use on IE9 and, like webrabbit, got no hits. It slowed my browsing down substantially, to an unnacceptable level, so I'm afraid I removed it.

It may well be that I had it configured incorrectly.
goombawaho (MIS)
17 May 11 8:18
You could have turned it off and see what happened.  I would blame IE9 if I had to blame something.  In my world, there is no IE.
stduc (Programmer)
17 May 11 10:54
I got this email from Ghostery. "Thanks for using Ghostery. Unfortunately, you seem to be in a small segment of Ghostery for IE users that has a system that conflicts with the extension. In your case, the best alternative here is to try using Ghostery on either Firefox or Chrome. We're currently testing Ghostery for IE9, as well, which will hopefully solve these problems when it's released."So I guess you will have to wait if you want to use it with IE9 and maybe with IE8 too!
goombawaho (MIS)
18 May 11 7:35
So, you're not going to listen and give up the evil IE?
stduc (Programmer)
18 May 11 8:23
It's not a question of listening and giving it up, evil or not. FYI I use IE, Firefox & Chrome as well as Ubuntu and Windows. They all have their own issues, weaknesses and strengths.
goombawaho (MIS)
18 May 11 14:11
Ok - I won't ask anything else or this will turn into a "I prefer XXXXX because" thread.
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