Earlier this month, I updated the privacy guide here at ExtremeTech. I heard plenty of feedback from readers, but the most frequent request was to drop the Ghostery extension from the list -- ...

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, ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

You’d like to be able to browse the web with some measure of privacy. That’s not an easy task with the major browsers. Instead, you can turn to a lesser known but ...

The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to make it more effective, governments want to regulate it, and web users are generally horrified of its potential. But out of ...

Ghostery, which specializes in privacy-focused web tools, last week released technology that allows site visitors to get to the content in much less time and helps them avoid the annoyance of trying ...

A recent report from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties calls out real-time bidding (RTB) as the “biggest data breach ever recorded,” because it tracks and shares what people view online and their ...