Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to ...

Ghostery’s ad-blocking extension is one of the more popular ways to protect your browser from unwanted trackers, but your online life isn’t limited to the web. That’s why Ghostery has launched ...

At the beginning of June, Microsoft announced that it would enable ‘Do Not Track’ by default in its forthcoming Internet Explorer 10. The controversial decision immediately sparked vehement uproar ...

Unlocking the browser extension's underpinnings could attract outside improvements and dispel 'conspiracy theories' about data about users it used to gather. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Whether or not Ghostery is an ad blocker depends on how you define “ad blocker.” Also depends on who you ask. It’s an awkward question for a company that wears two seemingly different hats in the ...

Most ad blockers—and there are so, so many of them now—operate roughly the same way, comparing the scripts they encounter on a given site to their whitelist and block list letting the former run and ...

Ad tech companies Ghostery and IPONWEB have combined their technologies to launch an antifraud service Thursday called Ghostery Verified Domains. The service, designed for an RTB environment, enables ...

The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand and block all the ways that advertisers were tracking them. Since then, ...

The internet runs on advertising, and that includes search engines. Google brought in $26 billion of search revenue in the most recent quarter alone. Yes, billion. As that business has grown, it’s ...

Ghostery, the popular ad blocker, has just released its first major update to its browser extension after being acquired n February. Ghostery 8 is available on Firefox, Chrome, and others, and comes ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...