Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker icon
Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker icon

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker

Block ads, cookies, popups & other trackers. Ghostery sets you up for a private, transparent, and fast internet.

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker screenshot 1

Cost / License

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Vivaldi
  • Google Chrome
  • Safari
  • Yandex Browser
  • Opera
  • Mozilla Firefox
Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker screenshot 1
Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker screenshot 2
+1
Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker screenshot 3
Alternatives  
346likes
98alternatives
1article

Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Block Trackers
  3.  Microsoft Edge extension
  4.  Safari extension
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Browser extension
  9.  Opera extension

 Tags

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent News

Recent activities

Ad
Screenshot
AdGuard icon
AdGuard

AdGuard is the best way to get rid of intrusive ads and online tracking, and to protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing faster, safer and more comfortable with AdGuard!.

 
Learn More

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Benjamin Lupton
2

I love this extension how I can select exactly what to block and what not to block, and it alerts me of all the different things on each site, I finally feel as if I have regained control of my web browsing experience - without all the pesky clutter I don't want, and informed about it all.

Top Negative Comment
Eriko
0

Ghostery is a data trading company that presents itself as an adblocker.

Nick M

It was before

RemovedUser
2

The software is very good, but it only blocks official advertising and no advertising integrated via websites. to have only a subscription model and no lifetime model like other providers I would rather pay once than pay every month / year.

[Edited by msebastian100, June 01]

Review from a new or low-activity account — shown here, but not counted in the app rating.
Cora
-2

Ghostery does a great job of deflecting trackers. I always install Ghostery alongside AdBlock Plus whenever I transition to a new browser or machine.

loziniak
-1

The functionality is great, but last modifications to UI make the app resources-intensive and not so usable.

jcarpenter
0

I'm thoroughly impressed by the elegant and effective design of this plugin (have only used in Chrome so far). Its notifications are unobtrusive yet obvious, attractively formatted, and has a perfect escalation of information curve (popup names - right click UI - complete entity profile page).

gordita_de_lisoform
0

Thanks Ghostery, now I can stalk my boyfriend's exes without worries :D

Featured in Lists

Europe’s Open-Source Solutions: Your Guide to Transparent, Independent and GDPR-Aligned Software.

This guide is designed for anyone looking to take greater control of their digital life by choosing open-source...

List by EUFOSS9132 with 126 apps, updated

ALL Chrome web extensions (applicable to Opera, Vivaldi, YandexBrowser too)

A list with 144 apps by Nemets39 without a description.

List by Nemets39 with 144 apps, updated

Top security web browser plugins

Plugins that you should have installed to browse internet safely. Of course you don't need to install them all....

List by Hoek Hoek with 23 apps, updated

Official Links

AppStores & Other Links

Download from Mac App Store

What is Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker?

Ghostery counts more than 100+ million downloads worldwide.

Ghostery for provides safe, fast, and clutter-free browsing for free. The browser extension upgrades your browser and supplies full adblock functionality, stops trackers from accessing your personal data, and annoying cookie consent pop-ups.

Ghostery has three main components:

  • Ad-Blocking - blocks all ads on websites you visit with your browser, including Youtube and Facebook, helping you to focus only on the information important to you.
  • Anti-Tracking - stops trackers’ ability to collect your personal data, replacing it with random values and anonymizing your identity for data brokers. If you see a need to unblock individual trackers, we developed this option. The reasons are up to you!
  • Never-Consent - automatically removes intrusive cookie popups and expresses dissent to online tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your privacy advocate towards content providers while using any web browser.

Ghostery delivers the online privacy protection our users have come to know and love while minimising the need for customisation and maintenance.

As Ghostery is more than an ad-blocker, it comes with exceptional additional features, not found in any other ad-blocking extension:

  • Trackers information on any website your visit, informing you about the number of trackers, their type, and the company operating them.
  • Trackers Preview on search engine result pages - displaying tracker information even before you visit a page. You can safely make the choice to visit it, as Ghostery will stop trackers expecting you on the landing page.
  • WhoTracks.Me - Owning and operating the largest database of trackers allows Ghostery to update tracker information fast and reliably for all users.

Moreover, Ghostery is:

  • Open source
  • Supported by thousands of contributors worldwide
  • Free to use forever

Ghostery is free for everyone. Take back control over your digital privacy and become a Contributor to Ghostery. Contributors help Ghostery fund the development of the Privacy Suite and WhoTracks.Me, the largest database of trackers in the world.

Become a Contributor and help Ghostery fight for privacy as a human right!

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker information

AlternativeTo Categories

Web Browsers, Security & Privacy, Business & Commerce

Apple AppStore

  •   Updated 
  •   4.32 avg rating

GitHub repository

  •  1,740 Stars
  •  173 Forks
  •  19 Open Issues
  •   Updated  
View on GitHub

Popular alternatives

View all

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker, and it has gotten 346 likes

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker was added to AlternativeTo by Boardies on and this page was last updated .