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New Ghostery tools give users full control over their online experience, from browser customization to privacy and more
New York, NY — January 16, 2019 — Ghostery, known for its free browser extension that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster and safer, today released a new subscription option, Ghostery Plus, which provides users in-depth web and tracker insights and advanced features including priority support, new themes and more. Ghostery will still offer a free version...
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The Ghostery Privacy Browser provides dramatically faster browsing and greater privacy to Android and iOS users with built-in tracker- and ad-blocking
New York – September 19, 2018 – Ghostery, known for its free browser extension that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster and safer, today launched a new version of its Ghostery Privacy Browser for Android and iOS, bringing the full browser ecosystem of its parent company Cliqz to Ghostery users and providing a fast, private, tracker-...
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Third-party trackers cost users an average of 10 extra seconds per page load time; internet users can double their browsing speed by simply blocking tracking scripts
New York, NY – May 1, 2018 – A new study published today by Ghostery, a free browser extension that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster and safer, and its parent company Cliqz, reveals that in addition to alarming privacy implications, today’s widespread practice of tracking every single user’s online behavior...
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Demonstrates Commitment to Transparency and the Open Internet
New York—March 8, 2018—Ghostery, a provider of free software that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster, and safer by detecting and blocking third-party data-tracking technologies, announced today that it is going open source and the code for its popular browser extension is now publicly available on GitHub. This move demonstrates Ghostery’s commitment to transparency, empowering the public to see how Ghostery works...
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Ghostery, a provider of free software that makes your web browsing experience faster, cleaner and safer by detecting and blocking thousands of third-party data-tracking technologies, today released Ghostery 8, the newest version of its popular browser extension for privacy protection. Equipped with new default settings and a simplified user interface that makes it easy for everybody to protect their privacy and regain control over their data. It combines the best of blocklist and AI-powered anti-tracking...
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A study by Ghostery, a provider of free software that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster and safer, and its parent company Cliqz, which specializes in building revolutionary technologies for private browsing and search, today revealed that trackers that collect data on internet users’ online behavior are present on at least 79 percent of websites (unique domains) globally.Web tracking has become so pervasive that approximately ten percent of websites send the data they’ve collected...
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Munich, Germany, February 15, 2017: Cliqz GmbH, a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media, has acquired Ghostery’s consumer operations, which includes the popular brand, anti-tracking browser extensions and mobile apps, user-base and team from its parent company, Ghostery, Inc. Cliqz is a provider of innovative, privacy-focused browser technologies with integrated quick-search functionality. By combining algorithmic and blocklist anti-tracking approaches, Cliqz and Ghostery will...
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