Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker Alternatives

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker is described as 'Block ads, cookies, popups & other trackers. Ghostery sets you up for a private, transparent, and fast internet' and is a very popular Ad Blocker in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker for a variety of platforms, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker alternative is uBlock Origin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker are Privacy Badger, AdGuard, Disconnect and Adblock Plus.

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  1. Privacy Possum icon
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    Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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    Comments about Privacy Possum as an Alternative to Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker
    ericwaters
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    Does essentially the same thing, except it's open source and it also falsifies the info trackers are attempting to gather.

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    • Privacy Possum is Free and Open SourceGhostery Tracker & Ad Blocker is also Free and Open Source
    • Privacy Possum is LightweightGhostery Tracker & Ad Blocker is not according to our users
  2. AdNauseam icon
     21 likes

    AdNauseam is a browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from surveillance and tracking by advertising networks.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • uBlock Origin
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
     
  3. Zen Ad-Blocker icon
     17 likes

    Zen is an open-source system-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It works by setting up a proxy that intercepts HTTP requests from all applications, and blocks those serving ads, tracking scripts that monitor your behavior, malware, and other...

    56 Zen Ad-Blocker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  4. Privoxy icon
     60 likes

    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

    57 Privoxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Wipr icon
     16 likes

    Effectively blocks ads, trackers, cryptocurrency miners, and popups across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, ensuring cleaner, faster web pages. It improves battery life, reduces data use, updates its blocklist twice weekly, and is fully accessible, focusing on user privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Safari
     
  6. Privacy, simplified. Our add-on provides the privacy essentials you need to seamlessly take control of your personal information, no matter where the internet takes you: tracker blocking, smarter encryption, DuckDuckGo private search, and more.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  7. hBlock icon
     10 likes

    hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew
     
  8. TrackMeNot icon
     19 likes

    TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy:...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  9. Cross-browser ad-blocking solution.

    103 AdBlocker Ultimate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Yandex Browser
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  10. A fundamental re-design of user Data Privacy. Your multi-tool for online protection. So easy your grandma could use it. Costs less than a cup of coffee per year.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. ScriptSafe icon
     15 likes

    A simple extension that brings some of NoScript 's functionality to Chrome while emphasizing simplicity and intuitiveness (no affiliation to NoScript or NotScripts).

    11 ScriptSafe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
     
  12. Qwant VIPrivacy sets Qwant as your default search engine, blocks trackers for you to protect your personal data while you browse.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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