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Ghostery combines ad blocking, tracker protection, cookie consent automation, and transparency tools to give you more control over your online experience. From blocking intrusive ads to revealing who is tracking you across the web, Ghostery helps make privacy visible, understandable, and easy to manage.
Supported on every browser and device, the Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker Extension is built to block ads, stop trackers, hide ads, and prevent pop-ups while you browse the web.
Ghostery neutralizes trackers, preventing them from collecting your personal data. Our browser extension removes personal identifiers and replaces them with random values, leaving data collectors clueless about your identity.
WhoTracks.Me is more than just a website — it is also the backbone of our Anti-Tracking technology, which protects users from unwanted and intrusive tracking.
With WhoTracks.Me, you can learn more about the online tracking industry, its market structure, and its data-sharing practices.
For those who want to stay ahead of developments in digital rights, tracking technologies, data protection, and the future of the open web, Privacy Digest delivers expert insights and practical guidance.
Every edition combines privacy news that matters, practical tips, and Ghostery updates to help you better understand the forces shaping the web and make more informed choices online.
Ghostery is a modular privacy platform combining ad blocking, anti-tracking, consent management, private search, and transparency. Available across all major browsers on desktop and mobile, it delivers consistent protection on all your devices.
Blocks ads on YouTube, Facebook, and all other websites. Removes banners, video ads, pop-ups, and sponsored content before they load, so you can browse faster, focus better, and enjoy a clean, distraction-free experience across the web.
Replaces your data with random values, anonymizes your identity for data collectors. Prevents trackers from building detailed profiles about you by masking identifying signals and minimizing the information websites and third parties can collect while you browse.
Automatically rejects tracking cookies and sends opt-out signals. Handles cookie pop-ups for you by declining non-essential tracking, reducing consent fatigue, and ensuring your privacy preferences are enforced consistently across supported websites.
Integrated with Ghostery, shows which companies are tracking you on every page. Provides transparent insights into the trackers behind websites, helping you understand who is collecting your data, helping you decide which trackers to block or allow.
Discover Ghostery Ad Blocker updates, privacy news, and live tracking data.
See the latest features, improvements, and fixes that make Ghostery even better.
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Read expert analysis from Ghostery’s Privacy Digest covering today’s most important privacy stories.
Explore live web tracking data from WhoTracks.Me and discover how trackers follow you across the web.
Love this Privacy Ad Blocker. Unobtrusive and effective.
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Firefox Browser ADD-ONS
Finally, a free Adblock that just works! [...] buried in a Reddit threat, I learnt about Ghostery. It’s a free adblocker, with some nifty features built in.
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App Store
Excellent work, best ad blocker ever
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Chrome Web Store
Best ad-blocker I've ever used! I love the Ghostery 10 redesign and 'Never Consent'!
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Firefox Browser ADD-ONS
For me Ghostery is a fire and forget extension since 2016. I am very content with it and on every new laptop I buy I am using it. I love your app.
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Ghostery is a top notch browser tool. I even bought your t-shirts to prove it. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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Installing the Ghostery app immediately removed all the annoying pop-ups on my phone! Thank you very much!!
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Ghostery hasn’t given me any problems since I installed it years ago [...] It is as reliable as the proverbial copper wire! I also enjoy the Privacy Digest. Very informative and educational.
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Best tracker protection there is
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Chrome Web Store
Ghostery is an excellent extension and I love it.
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Thank you for the work you do.
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Highly recommend it. Free and good. Erases all ads and does not ask for a subscription
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Edge Add-ons
Exceptional. I can't browse the internet without it.
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Chrome Web Store
Has to be the best overall privacy protector I have ever had the privilege of using. Thank you Ghostery.
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Firefox Browser ADD-ONS
Ghostery has been instrumental in enhancing my online privacy. I've been a satisfied user for around 10 years, consistently relying on Ghostery's effective tools.
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… Well done and thank you for your service to humanity.
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Chrome Web Store
Thank you on your excellent product. The day the ads took over 1/2 the screen, I realized just how incredibly annoying they are, & how grateful I am for your program.
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I have it on Chrome and Firefox and does the trick quick n easy.
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Blocked annoying cookie files consent (thanks EU) for free
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I have been using Ghostery for years. It is a good feeling to know they are protecting me while I am browsing online. But the feature I love most is their ‘Never-Consent’ to cookies.
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great it's blocks also cookies consent dialogs- loving it
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Chrome Web Store
I would not even consider traveling to a site without Ghostery leading the way.
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Firefox Browser ADD-ONS
Has worked well for me. Tools such as this that protect your privacy online are increasingly important.
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Ghostery is great, the released Never-Consent suppressing cookie popups is a master, and in addition, deleting ads on Safari on Youtube is also a glory.
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An ad blocker is a browser extension that prevents ads from loading while you browse the web. It blocks video ads, stops banners, pop ups and other intrusive elements before they appear on the page. Because many ads contain hidden trackers that collect information about what you read or click, an ad blocker also blocks those tracking scripts from loading. By stopping both ads and their embedded trackers, an ad blocker speeds up page loading, reduces data usage, and strengthens your privacy every time you go online.
Ghostery blocks more than just ads, and this makes it more effective than many other ad blockers. It stops the trackers hidden inside advertising scripts, giving you stronger privacy protection on every page you visit. Ghostery also shows you exactly which companies try to follow you online, offering real transparency rather than working silently in the background. With the Never-Consent feature automatically denying tracking requests inside cookie pop-ups, Ghostery keeps pages cleaner, loads sites faster, and gives you meaningful control over your information from the moment you start browsing.
Yes, you can use Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker on all your devices. Ghostery works on major desktop and mobile browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Brave. You can install it on as many devices as you like to block ads, stop trackers, and enhance your privacy wherever you browse. Each installation works independently, so you get the same protection whether you are on your laptop, phone, or tablet.
Ghostery blocks a wide range of online advertising formats to create a cleaner and more private browsing experience. It can block video ads, display banners, pop-ups, sponsored content, autoplay media, and many other annoying ads that interrupt websites. Beyond simply removing advertisements, Ghostery also blocks the tracking scripts commonly embedded inside advertising code, preventing advertisers from monitoring your browsing activity. By combining ad blocking with tracker blocking, Ghostery helps pages load faster while giving you greater control over your online privacy.
Yes. Ghostery is a free ad blocking browser extension that you can install without paying a subscription. All of Ghostery's features are completely free to use, including ad blocking, tracker blocking, cookie consent banner handling, and detailed tracker insights. As an open-source browser extension, Ghostery gives everyone access to powerful privacy tools at no cost. Optional contributions help support continued development, but every core feature remains available for free, making it easy to block annoying ads and browse with greater privacy.
An ad blocker speeds up page loading by preventing advertisements and their associated tracking scripts from loading in the first place. Every ad, tracker, and marketing script adds extra network requests that your browser must download and process before a page is fully displayed. By reducing these requests, Ghostery helps websites load faster, lowers bandwidth consumption, and reduces data usage. Because fewer resources need to be processed, pages often feel more responsive while providing a cleaner browsing experience with fewer distractions.
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