Intrusive ads and invasive tracking pervade everything around us, from top-of-the-line smart TVs to common web browsers, and they're increasingly hard to ignore. We recently had the opportunity to sit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every time you visit a web site, there's a very good chance a company--most notably or Facebook--will deploy a tracking tool to record what you looked at, and build a profile of what you do on the ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Author of the CMO Insider newsletter Earlier this month, hidden within a company blog post about the FCC's proposed new ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we noted last week, Evidon has redoubled its efforts to turn the 20 million users of its Ghostery browser plugin into a larger revenue stream. Execs have decided the tag-monitoring browser ...

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 ...

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