Not fine at all Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Two reasons to avoid this addon, above all

1. Not operate without connection to their site

2. Leaks to google



Once again they quietly deleted review and my profile also. Can ghostery employees do such actions here, not of course, this is corrupted mozilla employee, working for them. No way i shall post again and again.



I must admit that this addon, with disabled ghostrank, was quite decent before version 6. But with enabled ghostrank it becomes just another tracker, gathering data even from sites without trackers, i.e. all your browsing data. Today new version of this addon won't operate without connection to their site, consider you have ghostrank tracker tightly nailed.



It is staggering to recognize that your privacy protection software actually notifies Google, the most offensive, intrusive, privacy violating corp on the planet, of the identifiable information about every user of your product.



Discovering that your browser based configuration program uses fonts.googleapis.com, and by doing so provides Google the IP address of every user using your software to minimize the amount of digital stalking they're subjected to, just goes to show how much Ghostery 6 deserves all the recent 1-star ratings (even if you do delete them on a daily basis).



What… Did Google buy Ghostery recently? Is this part of some nefarious scheme you agreed to upon becoming partners with Oracle and IBM? Or are the programmers there just too lazy to write a few extra lines of code to enable their tracking blocking software in blocking the tracking of users?



New 6.0+ interface seems designed to confuse users into accepting certain trackers, and fundamental features, while still present, are now buried in a convoluted user interface. Given the evidence I have no choice but to think this is purposeful.



To start, social media trackers are whitelisted by default. After installation of the extension, the user is shown a list of tracker types, and asked what they would like to block. Social media trackers are excluded from this set. Digging into the settings reveals that these trackers (92 as of today) are still active. Given the omission of these from the setup dialog, and how difficult it is to find these advanced settings (at least 4 clicks) feels purposefully deceitful, and intended to make people believe they are blocking all known trackers when they are not.



Next, updating tracker libraries, and blocking new trackers in those libraries are different settings. In the initial setup dialog one may choose to update their tracker library automatically. Unfortunately, even if your extension knows of these new trackers, actually blocking new trackers is disabled by default, and not part of the setup dialog. Again, this could lead one to believe that they are protected when they are not.



Finally, the user interface is just plain badly designed, and Ghostery seemed to be missing certain trackers anyway. With these changes Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger are now the only extensions on this front worth using.