In privacy-focused, anti-establishment corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred. It signals that you not only have nothing to hide, but also welcome the ...

The ad blocker Ghostery is shaking up its business model and open-sourcing its code in a bid to earn more consumer trust. The company faced criticism last year over its business model, which involved ...

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 ...

Ad-blocking tool Ghostery suffered from a pretty impressive, self-inflicted screwup Friday when the privacy-minded company accidentally CCed hundreds of its users in an email, revealing their ...

Whether or not Ghostery is an ad blocker depends on how you define “ad blocker.” Also depends on who you ask. It’s an awkward question for a company that wears two seemingly different hats in the ...

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, ...

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 popular anti-tracking extension Ghostery has accused rival Adblock Plus of using a program which "extorts money" from advertisers. Adblock Plus denied the allegation. Ghostery was responding to ...

If your ad blocker isn't working anymore on Chrome, here's what to do.