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Ghostery helps you stay informed about what companies are tracking you by listing the trackers on each website you visit. Simple and Detailed Views Choose from multiple views depending on what you want Ghostery to display. Don’t worry – you can easily toggle between each view. Ever since its public release in 2008, Chrome has gradually become simpler to use, faster, and more secure. With the ever-changing world of the Internet, there may be times when you need to block a website due to one or more reasons. Ghostery uncovers the trackers on each website and empowers you to control the ones you don’t want for a cleaner, faster, and safer browsing experience. Learn More Take Control of.


NoScript is Free Software (source code): if you like it, you can support its progress :)

NoScript 10 'Quantum' resources

The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank).

NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a browser.

NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known, such as Meltdown or Spectre, and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality...

You can enable JavaScript, Java and plugin execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click on the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows.
Watch the 'Block scripts in Firefox' video by cnet.

Staying safe has never been so easy!
Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript!

Recommended: protect your Internet traffic, too, with Military Grade Encryption.

V. 11.2.4 - Quantum Security for everyone!

If you find any bug or you'd like an enhancement, please report here or here. Many thanks!

Main good news
  • CSS resources prefetching as a mitigation against CSS Prime+Probe scriptless side-channel attack (thanks Yossi Oren & and its research team for assistance.)
  • New 'noscript' pseudo-capability to control whether <noscript> elements should be shown on scriptless pages.
  • Full UI keyboard-based navigation:
    Alt+Shift+N
    start
    Arrows/Tab
    move
    DEL/BKSPC/0
    DEFAULT
    +
    TRUSTED
    -
    UNTRUSTED
    C
    CUSTOM
    T
    Temp
    S
    HTTPS-lock
    HOME
    jump to the toolbar
    ESC/ENTER
    Close the UI
    R
    Reload current page without closing the UI
    Shift+G
    Globally disable restrictions
    Shift+T
    Disable restrictions on this tab
    P
    Set all on this page to Temp. TRUSTED
    F
    Forget temporary permissions
  • Operating on Incognito tabs prevents you from setting permanent permissions to avoid privacy leaks on disk (see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29957).
  • Improved Firefox Preview (Fenix) / Firefox for Android UI.
  • Completely asynchronous XSS Filter in its dedicated process
  • Several new and updated translations, thanks to the Localization Lab / OTF NoScript Transifex project.
  • 'Override Tor Browser Security Level preset' option offers more flexibility to NoScript+Tor power users.
More in the changelog...

Experts do agree...

03/10/2014, Edward Snowden endorses NoScript as a countermeasure against state Surveillance State.

08/06/2008, 'I'd love to see it in there.' (Window Snyder, 'Chief Security Something-or-Other' at Mozilla Corp., interviewed by ZDNet about 'adding NoScript functionality into the core browser').

03/18/2008, 'Consider switching to the Firefox Web browser with the NoScript plug-in. NoScript selectively, and non-intrusively, blocks all scripts, plug-ins, and other code on Web pages that could be used to attack your system during visits' (Rich Mogull on TidBITS, Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software?).

11/06/2007, Douglas Crockford, world-famous JavaScript advocate and developer of JSON (one of the building blocks of Web 2.0), recommends using NoScript.

03/16/2007, SANS Internet Storm Center, the authoritative source of computer security related wisdom, runs a front-page Ongoing interest in Javascript issues diary entry by William Stearns just to say 'Please, use NoScript' :)
Actually, NoScript has been recommended several times by SANS, but it's nice to see it mentioned in a dedicated issue, rather than as a work-around for specific exploits in the wild. Many thanks, SANS!

05/31/2006, PC World's The 100 Best Products of the Year list features NoScript at #52!

Many thanks to PC World, of course, for grokking NoScript so much, and to IceDogg who kindly reported these news...

In the press...

  • CNET News: 'Giorgio Maone's NoScript script-blocking plug-in is the one-and-only Firefox add-on I consider mandatory.' (March 9, 2009, Dennis O'Reilly, Get a new PC ready for everyday use)
  • Forbes: 'The real key to defeating malware isn't antivirus but approaches like Firefox's NoScript plug-in, which blocks Web pages from running potentially malicious programs' (Dec 11, 2008, Andy Greenberg, Filter The Virus Filters).
  • PC World: Internet Explorer 7 Still Not Safe Enough because it doesn't act like 'NoScript [...] an elegant solution to the problem of malicious scripting' (cite bite)
  • New York Times: '[...] NoScript, a plug-in utility, can limit the ability of remote programs to run potentially damaging programs on your PC', (Jan 7, 2007, John Markoff, Tips for Protecting the Home Computer).
  • PC World's Ten Steps Security features using NoScript as step #6. (cite bite)
  • The Washington Post security blog compares MSIE 'advanced' security features (like so called 'Zones') to Firefox ones and recommends NoScript adoption as the safest and most usable approach. (cite bite)
Ghostery
Developer(s)David Cancel
Christopher Tino
José María Signanini
Serge Zarembsky
Patrick Lawler
Caleb Richelson
Initial releaseJanuary 2010; 11 years ago
Stable release
  • Browser extension: 8.4.6 / December 22, 2019; 16 months ago[1]
  • Android: 2.2 / January 31, 2019; 2 years ago[2]
  • iOS: 2.1.0 / October 30, 2018; 2 years ago[3]
Repository
Operating system
LicenseMPL 2.0[4]
Websitewww.ghostery.com

Ghostery is a free and open-sourceprivacy and security-related browser extension and mobile browser application. Since February 2017, it has been owned by the German company Cliqz International GmbH (formerly owned by Evidon, Inc., which was previously called Ghostery, Inc. and the Better Advertising Project).[5][6] The code was originally developed by David Cancel and associates.

Ghostery enables its users to detect and control JavaScript 'tags' and 'trackers' in order to remove JavaScript bugs and beacons that are embedded in many web pages which allow for the collection of a user's browsing habits via HTTP cookies, as well as participating in more sophisticated forms of tracking such as canvas fingerprinting.

As of 2017, Ghostery is available for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, iOS, Android, and Firefox for Android.

Additionally, Ghostery's privacy team creates profiles of page elements and companies for educational purposes.[7][8]

Functionality[edit]

Blocking[edit]

Ghostery blocks HTTP requests and redirects according to their source address in several ways:

  1. Blocking third-party tracking scripts that are used by websites to collect data on user behavior for advertising, marketing, site optimization, and security purposes. These scripts, also known as 'tags' or 'trackers', are the underlying technology that places tracking cookies on consumers' browsers.
  2. Continuously curating a 'script library' that identifies when new tracking scripts are encountered on the Internet and automatically blocking them.[8]
  3. Creating 'Whitelists' of websites where third-party script blocking is disabled and other advanced functionality for users to configure and personalize their experience.

Ghostery Chrome Web Store

When a tracker is blocked, any cookie that the tracker has placed is not accessible to anyone but the user and thus cannot be read when called upon.[9][10]

Reporting[edit]

Ghostery Pour Mozilla Firefox

Ghostery reports all tracking packages detected, and whether Ghostery has blocked them or not, in a 'findings window' accessible from clicking on the Ghostery Icon in the browser. When configured, Ghostery also displays the list of trackers present on the page in a temporary purple overlay box.[11]

History and use[edit]

Web

Originally developed by David Cancel, Ghostery was acquired by Evidon[12] (renamed Ghostery, Inc.) in January 2010. Ghostery is among the most popular browser extensions for privacy protection. In 2014, Edward Snowden suggested consumers use Ghostery along with other tools to protect their online privacy.[13]Ghostery, Inc. made their software source code open for review in 2010, but did not release further versions of the source code after that. On February 22, 2016, the company released the EULA for the Ghostery browser extension, as a proprietary closed-source product.

Cliqz GmbH acquired Ghostery from Evidon Inc. in February 2017.[14] Cliqz is a German company majority-owned by Hubert Burda Media. Ghostery no longer shares data of any kind with Evidon.

On March 8, 2018, Ghostery shifted back to an open source development model and published their source code on GitHub,[15] saying that this would allow third-party contributions as well as make the software more transparent in its operations. The company said that Evidon's business model 'was hard to understand and lent itself to conspiracy theories', and that its new monetization strategy would involve affiliate marketing and the sale of ad analytics data.[16][17]

In May 2018, in the distribution of an email promoting changes to Ghostery's practices to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), hundreds of user email addresses were accidentally leaked by listing them as recipients. Ghostery apologized for the incident, stating that they stopped the distribution of the email when they noticed the error, and reported that this was caused by a new in-house email system that accidentally sent the message as a single email to many recipients, rather than sending it individually to each user.[18][19]

Criticism[edit]

Under its former owner Evidon, Ghostery had an opt-in feature called GhostRank. GhostRank could be enabled to 'support' its privacy function. GhostRank took note of ads encountered and blocked, then sent that information back to advertisers so they could better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked.[20] Though Ghostery claims that the data is anonymized, patterns of web page visits cannot truly be anonymized.[21] Not everyone sees Evidon's business model as conflict-free. Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford graduate student and privacy advocate, has said: 'Evidon has a financial incentive to encourage the program's adoption and discourage alternatives like Do Not Track and cookie blocking as well as to maintain positive relationships with intrusive advertising companies'.[22]

Since July 2018, with version 8.2, Ghostery shows advertisements of its own to users.[23] Burda claims that the advertisements do not send personal data back to their servers and that they do not create a personal profile.[24]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Releases · ghostery/ghostery-extension', GitHub, February 18, 2019
  2. ^'Releases · ghostery/browser-android', GitHub, February 17, 2019
  3. ^'Ghostery Privacy Browser on the App Store'. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  4. ^'ghostery/ghostery-extension'. GitHub.
  5. ^'CLIQZ and Ghostery join forces to defend your privacy'. CLIQZ. February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  6. ^Ghostery Team. 'wbteck'.
  7. ^'wbteck.com'.
  8. ^ abAttacking Tracking: They're Watching You (Video). Fox News. March 15, 2011.
  9. ^'Third-Party Cookies vs First-Party Cookies'. Opentracker. Opentracker. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  10. ^'Prevent 3rd party script from setting cookies (specifically Google adsense)'. Stack Overflow. July 29, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  11. ^'wbteck'. www.ghostery.com. Ghostery, Inc. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  12. ^Pierce, Jon (2010). 'Github - Ghostery Source Code'. Github. Ghostery, Inc. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  13. ^Storm, Darlene (March 10, 2014). 'Snowden at SXSW: We need better encryption to save us from the surveillance state'. www.computerworld.com. computerworld. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  14. ^'Private search browser Cliqz buys Ghostery ad-tracker tool'. techcrunch.com. February 15, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  15. ^'Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a New Business Model'. wired.com. March 8, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  16. ^'This tool to block web tracking software just went open-source so you see exactly what it's up to'. CNET. March 8, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  17. ^Conger, Kate. 'Ad Blocker Ghostery Is Going Open Source to Win Back Some Privacy Points'. Gizmodo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  18. ^Dellinger, AJ. 'Ad Blocker Ghostery Celebrates GDPR Day by Revealing Hundreds of User Email Addresses'. Gizmodo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  19. ^'Ghostery Email Incident Update'. Ghostery. May 26, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  20. ^Henry, Alan. 'Ad-Blocker Ghostery Actually Helps Advertisers, If You 'Support' It'. LifeHacker.com. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  21. ^Hill, Kashmir (August 1, 2012). 'How Your Browsing History Is Like A Fingerprint'. Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  22. ^Simonite, Tom (June 17, 2013). 'Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry'. Mashable. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  23. ^'Ghostery FAQ - What is Ghostery Rewards?'.
  24. ^'Ghostery-Erweiterung blendet Werbung ein'. Heise (in German).

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External links[edit]

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