ghostery-extension VS user-agent-desktop

Compare ghostery-extension vs user-agent-desktop and see what are their differences.

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ghostery-extension user-agent-desktop
17 7
1,317 103
0.4% -1.0%
9.3 8.7
6 days ago 21 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Mozilla Public License 2.0 Mozilla Public License 2.0
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ghostery-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghostery-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-07.
  • The Technology Behind GitHub's New Code Search
    2 projects | /r/programming | 7 Feb 2023
    Note the differences. Top left search results in mention of file within the files. Now try this search. It's a different kind of result set.
  • True Heroes
    1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 25 Nov 2022
    What part is closed sourced?
  • Impresia noastră despre cei 15 ani de Android
    1 project | /r/Tehnocultura | 17 Nov 2022
    Am instalat si eu extensia Ghostery si dupa ceva cautari in lista de domenii blocate din pihole am dat de discutia de mai jos in link (communities like the Firefox subreddit seem to believe (rather zealously) that Ghostery is closed source and sells their users browser history to ad companies.)
  • How do i stop the "never consent" Popups?
    2 projects | /r/Ghostery | 27 Oct 2022
    If you have ideas in how we can improve, best leave a comment on https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension/issues/908 or open a new ticket. We did already change the UI a bit based on the feedback that we got so far. If there is more that we can do, please let us know. :-)
  • reddit gives me blank white page
    1 project | /r/firefox | 3 Jul 2022
    There's some more details here and here. There are some mentions of Chrome so presumably not an issue with the recent FF update. Basically it seems Ghostery needed to push out an update to fix its filters bc it was blocking Reddit as a tracker by default.
  • Ghostery is blocking Reddit completely on Firefox...
    1 project | /r/Ghostery | 1 Jul 2022
  • Can you disable the tracker wheel in search results?
    1 project | /r/Ghostery | 18 Jan 2022
    Release 8.6.1 · ghostery/ghostery-extension
  • Goodbye Brave
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2021
    Disclaimer: I work for Ghostery. I respond to protect my own name, not my employer.

    Ghostery is not selling user data.

    Let me point out a few facts:

    All browser-side code is open source https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension and https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-dnr-extension.

    Yes, Ghostery has a subscription based business model and that another reason to great care in protecting users privacy. Take a look on how we use blind tokens to authenticate subscribed users while searching on glowstery.com https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-search-extension (notice that even when you are a subscribed user there is no session cookie so queries cannot be linked).

    Hope this sheds some light on the accusation. If that’s not enough, I do sincerely recommend uBlock Origin or AdGuard on Apple’s platform.

  • How to track trackers? [Python for now]
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 5 Apr 2021
    Btw, I don't know if you noticed but ghostery is open source.
  • ublock Origin + Ghostery on firefox addon on android and Mac Os = good combo or to avoid and why ?
    2 projects | /r/uBlockOrigin | 19 Mar 2021
    1) Ghostery has been open-source for a few years a now. 2) The software used to be owned by Evidon. After 2017, it has been owned, open-sourced, and maintained by privacy-focus devs. Ghostery does not sell data.

user-agent-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of user-agent-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ghostery-extension and user-agent-desktop you can also consider the following projects:

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

nw.js - Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

desk.glitchy.website - A nostalgic recreation of the Windows 7 desktop UI

Better-Fox - An up-to-date user.js to speed up and secure Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox]

Send-to-Telegram-Chrome-extension - Send-to-Telegram: an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to send web content to your own Telegram Bot.

uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.

Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite

whotracks.me - Data from the largest and longest measurement of online tracking.

no-direct-ip - Browser extension to block directly entered, external or public IP v4 and v6 addresses

github-hovercard - Neat hovercards for GitHub.

brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues