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Ghostery for Chrome prevents advertisers, social media, and other services from collecting your online surfing and shopping behaviors. Although Ghostery is a small add-on, it gives you more. Ghostery is a powerful privacy extension. Block ads, stop trackers and speed up websites. Block ads Ghostery’s built-in ad blocker removes advertisements from a webpage to eliminate clutter so you can focus on the content you want. Ghostory is a 2D platformer based mostly on switching between a human type and a ghost type to cross varied puzzles. It is underlined by a light-minded, but participating plot and retro-styled pixel artwork graphics. In human type, the participant can work together with levers, keys or backpack.

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.

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 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]

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. 'Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz!'.
7. ^'Ghostery (Dead link)'. www.ghostery.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
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. ^'How does Ghostery work? (Dead link)'. 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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A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Ghostory is a 2D platformer based on switching between a human form and a ghost form to pass various puzzles. It is underlined by a light-minded, yet engaging plot and retro-styled pixel art graphics.

In human form, the player can interact with levers, keys or backpack. In ghost form, the player can fly or pass through walls. The player has to cleverly use both forms to get the backpack out of the cave.
Throughout the game, you pass through dozens of carefully-crafted levels which test your logical thinking. New mechanics and unique puzzles get introduced the deeper you get into the cave, making the game easy to get into, but always challenging and non-repetitive.

• Puzzles: Loads of unique levels and complex puzzles
• Story: An engaging and deep, yet a little bit crazy and pun-heavy storyline
• Atmosphere: Well-suited music for each level, multiple detailed environments
• Gameplay: Smooth and responsive mechanics

In Ghostory, you take role of a lone traveller who got lost in the woods. He drinks from an unknown lake and gets affected by a curse - he can transform to a ghost and fly. However, he is slowly dying.
Thankfully, he meets an old lady (with her own sense of humour) which can help him prepare an antidote - but she needs a special mushroom for it. Even though he finds the mushroom pretty fast in a cave nearby, a very unlucky earthquake occurs, trapping him inside. Will he find his way out? What secrets await him in the cave? Will the cure even work?
Find out yourself!

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Development log

Ghostery 2017 Torrent

• Update v1.2.0
  Jan 27, 2019
• Update v1.1.0
  May 22, 2018
• Update v1.0.95
  Jan 26, 2018
• Update v1.0.87
  Jan 22, 2018

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