Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker

Name: Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker
Rating: 4.72727 (11 reviews)

Utilities

View in App Store

Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker

Utilities

4.7

11 ratings

Age Rating

Seller

Ghostery, Inc.

In-App Purchases

$4.99 – $47.99

View in App Store

Price Intelligence:

Average for the Utilities category The most popular in-app price for the app

Grow your in-app revenue

while we take care of your subscription management.
Mobile SDK by Qonversion.

Learn more

Price Intelligence based on:

213,518

apps aggregated

8,172,290

in-app prices defined

main categories

In-App Purchase Price (Subscription or Non-Recurring)

vs. average for the Utilities category, $, by region

Build, analyze, and grow in-app subscriptions

with the most powerful mobile SDK for subscriptions

Explore

User Reviews for Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker

Simply the best - outperforms adguard

I’m obsessive about adblocking and have been for years. I create and customize my own rules on PC - so i’m not a novice. Ghostery REALLY surprised me with this new release for IOS. It used to be amongst the worst and now it is better than even the paid apps including my usual go-to, adguard and 1blocker. It’s simpler to use AND blocks more - I tested them side by side and saw for myself.

AhmadMD1990, Mar 14, 2022

Doesn't Work

I have this installed and it stopped appearing in the Safari extensions. What happened?

Eric Thirteen, May 02, 2022

Not as good as Ghostery...

Like others, I miss the granularity Ghostery offered, but if this is to comply with new Apple policies, I understand. However, I wish I could import Ghostery's settings for which sites to trust or not - seems starting over with a blank slate is a tremendous step back.Also, the Ghostery Lite UI app is almost completely unhelpful, and honestly could have been put into a popup for the extension's button. The fact that it doesn't have a keyboard shortcut or menu option for "Close Window" but it does have one for minimize just shows how little the authors care about the Mac market or in doing things correctly for us. Insulting, really.

FM_M, Sep 09, 2019

It works great

I installed the app and inmediately visited one website that it's plagued with pop-up windows, ads and such of all kind and the app effectively stopped EVERYTHING from showing other than the page I actually wanted to see. AAA 100% Recommended.

Insoc, Aug 06, 2022

Pay the fee, will not install

Been using this App for years.The extension was removed for my Mac.Tried to reinstal, must pay, so opted for the 4.99/month to try it. Installer will not let me past the subscription screen. So ap is no longer free with in app purchase.

Long time user, no longer, Apr 14, 2022

Comparable functionality to uBlock Origin

Ghostery add blocker is the best replacement I could find for uBlock Origin so far. It has been a challenge to replace uBlock Origin, I have tried most of the options in the Mac App Store, such as AdBlock, Better, and more. Most had one issue or another. So far, Ghostery Lite has most of the features that I need. The default filter options work good, and they have a custom filter option too. Their user interface is also easy to use and shows some basic stats for each site just as uBlock Origin. I think if the developer continues to maintain and develop this tool further I will be with this one for a long time. One recommendation is once you install both Ghostery extensions restart Safari. I noticed it did not actually fully block until the Safari app was restarted.

marksanctuary, Oct 14, 2019

Finally An Ad Blocker That Just WORKS !!!

I've been looking for a new ad blocker for a while now that I upgraded to Mojave and Apple had their new rules. The old, reliable ones I use to use just weren't working. I found a couple that I paid for that I "thought" worked but it turned out they had their other issues. Then I stubbled across this ad blocker and behold — IT WORKS and doesn't negatively impact my system. GREAT WORK !!!

maxvptrsn, Dec 22, 2018

Dramatically Better Than Alternatives

While uBlock Origin may have been the best ad block plugin for Safari prior to the new App Store method, GhostryLite is almost as good. I've tried AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, Ka-Block, etc. and all either break websites are or too slow to be useable as they load complex sites with lots of ads. AdBlock for Safari is my second choice after Ghostry. Ghostry is extremely fast and accurate. The only thing that could make Ghostry better is to do a better job of collapsing blocked ads which currently show mostly as empty squares taking up space on the screen, otherwise nearly perfect! For those overly concerned about security and the pugins access to your private web info (as I am), you can simply enable the 'content blocker' extension in Safari and leave unchecked the 'UI' extension, Ghostry will continue to work just fine this way - note this is true for all ad blockers using the new extention method that have both an engine/blocker and a UI extension.

pmdworks, Feb 16, 2019

Crashes pkd affecting Finder and Other Apps

For the past month, I have been perplexed with crashing of the Finder and Notes. Usually rock-solid, I couldn't figure out what was happening. I change USB cables for hard drives, I disconnected peripherals, I even reinstalled the system from scratch, but I couldn't find out what was causing it. Finally, I did some research on the internet and found that pkd crashing could cause the issue. Sure enough when I was experiencing a crash, I loaded up activity monitor and at the top of the list was pkd. After killing the process everything worked as normal, but suddenly i noticed webpages were showing adds again. Restarting safari (and reloading Ghostery) caused pkd to peak again crashing finder. I found the culprit. I removed it from my system and have been crash free since. Other Safari extensions work just fine, this one is no longer good at all.

vogelmeister, Sep 24, 2020

Finally available for iOS!

I’ve used this browser extension since they made it before Apple allowed extensions for safari and always loved it! I waited patiently for the day Apple would allow extensions for Safari and now they’re here, and now Ghostery has come too! Ghostery was always one of the first extensions I installed on my web browsers for tracker blocking and it should be one of the first extensions you install into safari!

Wiricijebrjeb, Mar 20, 2022

Description

Ghostery for Safari provides fast, simple and safe browsing. It protects your privacy online by stopping trackers from accessing your personal data and blocks ads to keep the websites you visit clutter free. It delivers the tracking protection our users have come to know and love while minimizing the need for customization and maintenance.

We created tailored default settings that offer immediate tracker and ad blocking upon installation and do all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, allowing you to visit the websites you love without any hassle. Features: + Three comprehensive Content Blockers help you block ads and stop trackers Happy browsing! -- Privacy Policy: https://www.ghostery.com/privacy/ghostery-plans-and-products-privacy-policy Ghostery Subscription Plans and Products End-User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.ghostery.com/privacy/ghostery-subscription-plans-and-products-end-user-license-agreement Terms & Conditions: https://www.ghostery.com/privacy/ghostery-terms-and-conditions