Ghostery Midnight is a VPN service with added system-wide tracker and ad-blocking. The main idea behind Ghostery Midnight is simple: extend the privacy and benefits of a VPN connection with protections against […]
Ghostery published an update to the popular anti-tracking and ad-blocking solution in early July 2018 that is available for browsers such as Firefox or Chrome. Ghostery 8.2 introduces an updated user interface […]
The source code of the privacy extension Ghostery for the web browsers Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Edge, has been published on GitHub by the development company. Ghostery is a very popular browser […]
A new version of Ghostery, Ghostery 8, was released yesterday featuring new AI-powered anti-tracking capabilities and enhanced ad-blocking. Ghostery, which was acquired by German company Cliqz some time ago, is a cross-browser […]
Cliqz, a German company owned by Burda Media and Mozilla, has acquired the popular anti-tracking tool Ghostery and the Ghostery brand. We reviewed Ghostery several times here on Ghacks Technology News, the […]
Ghostery is a popular browser extension for Chrome, Opera and Firefox that is been designed primarily to block tracking scripts on the Internet. The extension shares features with ad-blockers, but concentrates on […]
Ghostery 6.0 is an update of the popular tracker blocking extension for the Firefox web browser that introduces a redesigned interface and feature additions. Ghostery is a popular -- but also controversial […]
Ghostery is a rather controversial privacy add-on for various web browsers including Firefox and Google Chrome. The extension has been designed to improve online privacy by blocking trackers. Apart from that, it […]
Android users have quite the selection of mobile browsers at their disposal. From stock browsers to Firefox and hundreds of other browsers. A new addition to the list is Ghostery Privacy Browser, […]
One of the main arguments brought forth for the switching to the WebExtensions system for browser extensions was that it made cross-browser extensions easier. Firefox users may now reap the benefits of […]
Learn how to manage your Firefox extensions. Install Firefox extensions using the steps provided. Learn how to remove add-ons in three easy steps.
Best Ad Blockers for Chrome Ads are one of the biggest annoyances that you will come across while surfing the internet. Websites place ad banners, and when visitors view the ads or […]
Brave Software has acquired the Tailcat search engine, to step up the competition with Google Search. Tailcat will be integrated in to Brave Browser, as Brave Search. Brave Search is intended to […]
The Firefox 83.0 Stable and Firefox ESR 78.5 release date is November 17, 2020. The new stable version of the Firefox browser and the new Extended Support Release version is provided via […]
Some Firefox users started to notice that installed browser extensions were all disabled in the web browser suddenly. Extensions would display "could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been […]
Google released a first draft of the new version of Google Chrome's Extension Manifest in January 2019. The company plans to limit the webRequest API that extensions, content blockers like uBlock Origin […]
Most web browsers nowadays support extensions that add, change, or remove certain functionality from the browser itself or websites. Extensions may be installed to block advertisement or tracking, add functionality to websites, […]
Firefox Public Data Report is a new weekly report by Mozilla that offers current and historic statistics on user metrics, usage behavior, and configurations on mobile and desktop operating systems. Has Firefox […]
A team of Belgian researchers from KU Leuven analyzed third-party cookie policies of seven major web browsers, 31 ad-blockers and 14 anti-tracking extensions and discovered major and minor issues in all of […]
Lumen Privacy Monitor is a free application for Google Android that monitors connections that applications make on a device it runs on to uncover communication with tracking servers and data collecting. Created […]
Mozilla plans to launch a new Firefox experiment for Cliqz next week for German Firefox users who download the browser from the organization's website. Mozilla has a business relationship with Cliqz GMBH. […]
The Firefox web browser ships with an add-on management interface that users may load directly by typing about:addons in the browser's address bar, or by using menus of the browser the page […]
Back in March 2017 and April 2017 we published two articles about Firefox add-ons and the progress that was made towards WebExtensions compatibility. This article is a follow up to those previous […]
The following article looks at a list of top Firefox add-ons, and checks whether those add-ons are available as WebExtensions already, or are planned to be released as WebExtensions. Top Firefox add-ons […]
WebExtensions, a new browser API for Firefox that Mozilla wants add-on developers to focus on once it has been released, is still on track for a Firefox 48 release. Mozilla announced the […]
Firefox Electrolysis, a new multi-process architecture of the browser also known as e10s, won't see a release in stable Firefox this year. Mozilla announced back in early 2013 that it was considering […]
If you are running the Firefox Developer Edition on desktop or Firefox Aurora on Android, you may have noticed a couple of changes after today's update. Mozilla added several features to those […]
The Vivaldi browser, just like many other Chromium/Blink browsers, shares much of its core with Google Chrome and other browsers Chromium based browsers. One positive effect of that is that it supports […]
Whenever you connect to sites on the Internet information about the connection and the underlying system are available to the site automatically. Information include the web browser and version used to connect, […]
Firefox 35 has been pushed to the Stable channel recently by Mozilla and while the majority of users did not notice any incompatibilities or issues, some users noticed that one or multiple […]
Mozilla is working on Firefox's multi-process architecture that it calls e10s and interested users can enable it in some versions of Firefox already. If you have tried it already you may have […]
Privacy Badger is a new browser extension for Firefox and Chrome by the EFF that can block spying ads and trackers on websites. Tracking users is essential to online marketing today. Tracking […]
You will find the best Google Chrome extensions -- sometimes also called add-ons or plugins -- on this page. Browser extensions can enhance your web browsing experience in many ways, from improving […]
This web page lists the best Firefox addons that are available for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. These browser extensions add, remove or modify features of the browser itself, for instance interface […]
Browser extensions can improve a web browser's functionality significantly. They can improve a user's workflow on the web or add information to the browser that would otherwise not be directly accessible. When […]
Chance is that the web pages that you are connecting to with your web browser load elements from different web servers, and not from one. This is for instance the case if […]
All web browsers accept cookies from websites in their default configuration. Cookies contain different information, from session data over individual site preferences to advertisement and tracking related data. Cookies can generally be […]
Most websites have tracking systems installed. Some use internal trackers to analyze traffic on the site while others may use external analytics services such as Google Analytics, embed advertisement or display social […]
One of the greatest strengths of the Firefox web browser is its extensibility. This does not only include new features but also security enhancements that make the web browser more secure and […]
