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Ghostery is a free and open-source privacy 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).
Evidon (formerly Ghostery, Inc. and The Better Advertising Project) is a New York City-based company dealing in enterprise marketing analytics and compliance services. It was previously the owner of the anti-tracking browser extension Ghostery , which it sold to the German, Mozilla -backed company Cliqz GmbH in February 2017.
The IronVest consumer security and privacy app and browser extension evolved from Blur, a privacy product designed to block trackers and provide masking tools, developed by Abine, a privacy company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and first released for Firefox in March 2011. [3] There is a free version, and a paid one with more features.
uBlock Origin (/ ˈ j uː b l ɒ k / YOO-blok [5]) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.The extension is available for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera).
AdNauseam – A free and open-source browser extension that blocks and clicks on ads served by sites that ignore Do Not Track; Blur – An open-source application designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers.
A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4] As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. [5] Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware.
In November 2020, Microsoft Edge Store and Chrome web store [15] were infiltrated with fraudulent add-ons posing as various legitimate VPN browser add-ons, including NordVPN and AdGuard's VPN add-on. [16] Subsequently Microsoft and Google were alerted and actions were taken to remove the fake add-ons in the various browser stores. [17]
On 29 April 2020, Cliqz announced it will shut down its browser and search engine. [12] Subsequently, the search engine - called Tailcat - was acquired by Brave. [13] As of March 2021, a browser called Ghostery Dawn was reported to be under development. [14] Ghostery Dawn became available for public download in October 2021. [15]