Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to ...

Ghostery’s ad-blocking extension is one of the more popular ways to protect your browser from unwanted trackers, but your online life isn’t limited to the web. That’s why Ghostery has launched ...

At the beginning of June, Microsoft announced that it would enable ‘Do Not Track’ by default in its forthcoming Internet Explorer 10. The controversial decision immediately sparked vehement uproar ...

Whether or not Ghostery is an ad blocker depends on how you define “ad blocker.” Also depends on who you ask. It’s an awkward question for a company that wears two seemingly different hats in the ...

Most ad blockers—and there are so, so many of them now—operate roughly the same way, comparing the scripts they encounter on a given site to their whitelist and block list letting the former run and ...

Ghostery has decided not to have its cake and eat it too. On Wednesday, the company announced that it’s been acquired in an all-cash deal by Cliqz, a German privacy-focused browser that plans to use ...

The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand and block all the ways that advertisers were tracking them. Since then, ...

The internet runs on advertising, and that includes search engines. Google brought in $26 billion of search revenue in the most recent quarter alone. Yes, billion. As that business has grown, it’s ...

Can you see all the strange entities watching you online? Ghostery users think of the service as an ad blocker, but the company prefers for potential clients to see it as a tool for dealing with ...

The popular anti-tracking extension Ghostery has accused rival Adblock Plus of using a program which "extorts money" from advertisers. Adblock Plus denied the allegation. Ghostery was responding to ...

Ghostery, the popular ad blocker, has just released its first major update to its browser extension after being acquired n February. Ghostery 8 is available on Firefox, Chrome, and others, and comes ...

Evidon, the leader in online transparency, announced today that it has changed its name to Ghostery, Inc. For more than four years, Ghostery has powered multi-platform transparency tools for consumers ...