
ChaoticNight
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Latest version is just as bad as the PC one: forces you to send "non personal information" to something called "WhoTracks.Me" before you can actually use the Ghostery privacy settings. I didn't do it then and I'm sure as heck not doing it now! It didn't bother me before that the company was actually ad friendly since you could still opt out of ads and tracking, including their own human web thing. But this is a huge step back and against what they're supposed to stand for. Uninstalling.
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A Google user
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A person doesn't install Ghostery because they want to be hip or trendy. They do it because they want to keep things simple and browse in peace. It seems in the September update much of that is now broken. The blue in the top bar hurts my eyes and many of the menus feel wrong. At the very least do away with the color from the top bar and go with greyscale so that it doesn't clash so badly with 90%+ of the web. Considering the lack of good alternatives, I guess I've switched to the duck duck go browser for now. I haven't been able to stand the way Firefox likes to organize things or play with their visual themes, so I simply avoid using it except when someone tells me there's a Firefox-specific bug in something at work. I certainly didn't want it on my phone. I know the old Ghostery had some issues with certain type of sites and downloads, but I accepted that as the price for a browser that bucked the trend to deliver a simple, clean web browsing experience. After all, I could always fall back to Chrome for the few things I absolutely needed to get to work and would simply copy/paste the URL in most cases avoiding searching and browsing in Chrome.
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Update: I take it back. This app has become completely unusable. It crashes non-stop *and* it's not providing the same level of privacy that it used to. [With the new version I have problems with pages jumping as they load, lots of advertising. Still #1 for privacy, though. One thing I'd kill for: a way to export my bookmarks list so that I won't lose 3 years of bookmarks when my phone dies.]
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Ghostery, Inc.
March 5, 2019
hi Brooke, We're looking into possible reasons for the crashes. Sorry about that! Ad-blocking should actually work very reliably, so if you could send example websites of where you see ads to support@ghostery.com, it could help us identify issues. We'll add your bookmarks export request to the roadmap.
Happy browsing!
Your Ghostery Team