[GLLUG] Ghostery Extension & gllug.org

[Tom McArthur]

Ghostery is a great tool. I use it with AdBlock Plus and NoScript to get 
a fairly safe web browsing experience.

Unfortunately, Ghostery breaks some website functionality, which makes 
it almost useless for non-technical users. For example, it removes all 
of the Facebook "Like" buttons and all comment/discussion dialogs that 
are at the bottom of many web pages. My wife would be lost without those 
features, and would have no idea how to get them back (regardless of how 
many times I showed her how to do it!)

Tom

On 08/18/2015 02:04 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
> I've installed a Firefox extension called Ghostery that displays and 
> can block methods websites and companies use to track our web 
> behavior.  I noticed that our website takes about two seconds to load 
> now, versus maybe twenty, thirty, or more seconds it used to.  
> Ghostery blocks the Facebook Connect tracker, which speeds loading up 
> considerably.  Of course, I've visited our website recently enough 
> that the graphics are still in my cache, but this is over dial-up.