10 June 2011

Ghostery

Ghostery

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Ghostery
Developer(s) David Cancel,
Felix Shnir,
Alexei Miagkov
Stable release Firefox: 2.5.3 / April 23, 2011,
, Chrome: 2.3.0 / May 23, 2011,
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Mozilla extension,
Chrome Extension,
Safari Extension,
IE Extension
Website ghostery.com/
Ghostery is a free privacy browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer that enables its users to easily detect and control tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that have the potential to collect data on their browsing habits. Ghostery also has a privacy team that creates profiles of page elements and companies for educational purposes. [1] The Mozilla Firefox Ghostery extension has been downloaded almost 2,400,000 times.

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[edit] 1 How it works

[edit] 1.1 Blocking

Ghostery blocks HTTP requests according to their source address in two ways: Cookie Blocking, and Cookie Protection, which is experimental. When Cookie Protection is enabled, if a cookie is selected from Ghostery's list, it is not accessible to anyone but the user and thus unable to be read when called upon.
In Internet Explorer, Ghostery can detect elements that are not in the page source, such as redirects and iframe contents, but these are detected after execution and cannot be blocked.

[edit] 1.2 Reporting

Ghostery for Firefox uses a separate engine from its "control" engine to scan the DOM of the webpages users visit and report the contents in a purple overlay. Ghostery for Chrome, Safari and IE use the same engine for both controlling and reporting page elements.

[edit] 2 History and Use

Originally developed by David Cancel, Ghostery was acquired by the privacy technology company Evidon (then named The Better Advertising Project) in January of 2010. Currently, through the use of a reporting function named "GhostRank" that users can opt into, Ghostery provides reports to Evidon about advertisers and data collectors, which Evidon then provides to regulatory agencies like the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and the Direct Marketing Association, parts of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)[2]. These agencies use then use those reports to monitor how Online Behavioral Advertisers operate, and, when needed, refer them to the Federal Trade Commission.

[edit] 3 See also

Portal-puzzle.svg Free software portal

[edit] 4 References

  1. ^ Attacking Tracking: They're Watching You
  2. ^ Council to Enforce Online Tracking Principles

[edit] 5 External links

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[edit] Contested deletion

This page should not be speedy deleted because it does not fit under A7. Ghostery has been written about in international, as well as domestic press including the WSJ, NYT, Fox News, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, PCWorld, MacWorld, and more. The Firefox extension alone has more than 2 million downloads, the Chrome extension has more than 80k daily users. New references included, some modifications made. --ResolvedElement (talk) 19:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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