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[[Image:35star.png]][[Image:00star.png]]Enables users to easily detect and control tags, web bugs, pixels, and beacons that have the potential to collect data on their browsing habits. Ghostery blocks HTTP requests according to their source address in two ways: Cookie Blocking and Cookie Protection. Ghostery for Firefox uses a separate engine from its "control" engine to scan the DOM of the webpages users visit and report the contents in a purple overlay inside the page DOM. THEY SOLD OUT. LATEST RELEASE IS SPYWARE. Being tracking online by companies like Google and Facebook is a serious problem today. You have a right to privacy and your personal activity is being exploited in ways many can't fully appreciate. Security and privacy extensions along with other precautions such as the use of [[Private Search Engines]] will help you to be more anonymous, preserving your privacy as much as possible without completely unplugging yourself from the Internet. issue: Ghostery incompatible with Verizon Wireless web site www.verizonwireless.com online bill pay. Certain javascript buttons like the Pay Now or Next are disabled by Ghostery, making it impossible to pay a phone bill online. resolution: add verizonwireless.com to the Ghostery whitelist. Still, the inconvenience and troubleshooting time results in loss of 1/2 star rating for Ghostery. * Usefulness: Recommended (for security)* Category: Security * Side Effects: causes problems with some online bill pay services* Compatibility: ''(testing)''