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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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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 ...

Ghostery, a browser extension that blocks advertisers and web publishers from tracking your online behavior, has opened up its code so anyone with some programming chops can see exactly what’s going ...