Ghostery News

Announcing: Ghostery for Firefox v2.0 featuring TrackerBlock

I’m pleased to announce the release of Ghostery for Firefox v2.0!

You can get the latest version here, or if you already have Ghostery installed, simply wait for Firefox to automatically notify you of the update.

NEW: Ghostery TrackerBlock - Block advertising, widgets, and other trackers

You’ve all been asking for the ability to block trackers for a long time. I am very happy to annonce that “TrackerBlock” is finally a part of Ghostery.

The release of TrackerBlock is the first step to providing you with a comprehensive set of tools to protect your privacy and to manage your relationships with 3rd party advertising, behavioral targeters and web analytic services.

Here are few screenshots that show TrackerBlock in action:

Other new stuff in Ghostery for Firefox v2.0:

• Support for Russian language added.
• New definitions:
  • Statsit
  • LeadForce1 
  • BackType Widgets
  • iPerceptions
  • SearchForce
  • Tweetboard
  • TweetMeme
  • Zendesk
  • INFOnline
  • RichRelevance
  • LiveInternet
  • visitrac
  • BLVD Status
  • Clixpy
  • Logdy
  • DoubleVerify
  • ViziSense
  • phpMyVisites
  • Xiti
  • Yandex.Metrics
  • AdRiver
  • SpyLog
  • RapLeaf
  • ClickFuel
  • Alexa Metrics
• Refined definitions:
  • Microsoft Atlas
  • Tacoda
  • Tell-A-Friend

Finally I want to thank Jon Pierce for contributing the blocking code and Sergey Fomin for contributing the Russian translation.

p.s. If you use Ghostery, please consider posting a review here. Thanks for your support and feedback, it means a lot to me!