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Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data.
which blocks third-party cookies and also detects and prevents fingerprinting attempts. ### Why Betterfox Loves Ghostery ❤️
Ghostery clears **cookies from tracking domains that you did not visit as first parties** after an hour or so, hardening the protection further.
Ghostery we introduced (alongside the traditional content blocker or adblocker), an [anti-tracking feature](https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-blocking-trackers.html) which is not based on blocklists, and is able to remove unsafe datapoints (e.g. fingerprints, third-party cookies, unique identifiers, etc.) from requests without having to block them, drastically reducing breakage.
### ❤️ Why Betterfox Loves Ghostery
* Blocks ads and trackers effectively. Annoyances, too! * Blocks ads and trackers effectively. Annoyances, too!
* Deploys AI and heuristics to catch trackers **not** on popular blocklists. (And if a tracker isn't blocked, then the request is modified and anonymized to prevent site breakage.) * Deploys AI to detect and prevent trackers **not** on popular blocklists. (And if a tracker isn't blocked, then the request is [modified and anonymized](https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-blocking-trackers.html) to prevent site breakage.)
* Clears cookies from tracking domains that you did not visit as first parties.
* Enables language-specific filters [automatically](https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension/issues/22#issuecomment-526841301) based on your browsing habits (without any data leaving your browser). * Enables language-specific filters [automatically](https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension/issues/22#issuecomment-526841301) based on your browsing habits (without any data leaving your browser).
* Plus, [your data usage is reduced by more than 100x](https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/cliqz-developers-revolutionize-ad-blocker-architecture). Instead of always downloading the complete filter lists after an update, only the entries that have actually changed are updated. * Plus, [your data usage is reduced by more than 100x](https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/cliqz-developers-revolutionize-ad-blocker-architecture). Instead of always downloading the complete filter lists after an update, only the entries that have actually changed are updated.
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Of course, it depends on how you setup uBlock Origin: The more you block the better, but it also increases breakage, and you will never be able to block everything (this would break a lot of websites and you would have to whitelist some requests, leaving your privacy unprotected). Of course, it depends on how you setup uBlock Origin: The more you block the better, but it also increases breakage, and you will never be able to block everything (this would break a lot of websites and you would have to whitelist some requests, leaving your privacy unprotected).
On top of the part actively protecting privacy like anti-tracking and content blocking, there are other features to clear cookies from tracker domains to keep a "clean slate", etc. (A bit like what [Safari](https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/) and [Firefox](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Privacy/Redirect_tracking_protection) have implemented). For example, Ghostery clears **cookies from tracking domains that you did not visit as first parties** after an hour or so, hardening the protection further. [^1] On top of the part actively protecting privacy like anti-tracking and content blocking, there are other features to clear cookies from tracker domains to keep a "clean slate", etc. (A bit like what [Safari](https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/) and [Firefox](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Privacy/Redirect_tracking_protection) have implemented). For example, **Ghostery clears cookies from tracking domains that you did not visit as first parties**(!) after an hour or so, hardening the protection further. [^1]
### "Ghostery does not have much customization or fine-grained controls (dynamic filtering, medium mode, element picker etc.)." ### "Ghostery does not have much customization or fine-grained controls (dynamic filtering, medium mode, element picker etc.)."
This is an interesting point and I think it is worst pointing out that Ghostery is aiming at providing the best privacy protection out-of-the-box. This also means that IMO there is less of a need for dynamic filtering and medium mode, which are (I think), mostly needed because of the limitations of content blocking (e.g. not all requests can be blocked otherwise websites are broken, so there needs to be a way to fine-tune the behavior manually). This is an interesting point and I think it is worst pointing out that Ghostery is aiming at providing the best privacy protection out-of-the-box. This also means that IMO there is less of a need for dynamic filtering and medium mode, which are (I think), mostly needed because of the limitations of content blocking (e.g. not all requests can be blocked otherwise websites are broken, so there needs to be a way to fine-tune the behavior manually).
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## My recommended build ## Betterfox Recommended Build
You can import my recommended Ghostery setup by [downloading this file](https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbgocfbt4xd7dat/Betterfox_defaults.ghost?dl=0) and [importing it](https://postimg.cc/rDzBbd8B) into the Ghostery extension. You can import my recommended Ghostery setup by [downloading this file](https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbgocfbt4xd7dat/Betterfox_defaults.ghost?dl=0) and [importing it](https://postimg.cc/rDzBbd8B) into the Ghostery extension.
* Ads + trackers + Annoyances blocked * Ads + Trackers + Annoyances blocked
* (Only four or five exceptions made due to site breakage) * (Only four or five exceptions made due to site breakage)
* Smart Block disabled * Smart Block disabled
* “Allow trackers created by site owners” (first-party trackers) disabled * “Allow trackers created by site owners” (first-party trackers) disabled