What's new in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.16
Apr 19, 2024
- Ghostery 10: Simple custom filters editor by @chrmod in #1354
- Adblocker preprocessor support by @chrmod in #1519
- UI stats wtm anchor links to ghostery.com by @smalluban in #1526
- Fix Opera detection by @philipp-classen in #1530
- [mv3]: update Vietnamese by @tachibana-shin in #1528
- Update README by @philipp-classen in #1533
- Ghostery 10: staging setup by @chrmod in #1531
- Update dependencies by @philipp-classen in #1534
- Adblocker update by @chrmod in #1535
- Fix www.ghostery.com links by @chrmod in #1536
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.15 (Apr 1, 2024)
- What's Changed:
- MV3: pause rules should have highest priority by @chrmod in #1515
- Fix Safari host permissions by @smalluban in #1517
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.13 (Mar 9, 2024)
- What's Changed:
- chore: use chrome.tabs.reload by @seia-soto in #1482
- Ghostery 10: telemetry fixes by @chrmod in #1487
- Update [email protected] by @chrmod in #1488
- Ghostery 10: enable anti-tracking reporting on Opera by @chrmod in #1489
- Never-consent popup clean up by @smalluban in #1491
- Keep site/global tracker settings from v8 for future use by @smalluban in #1492
- Opera: shorter blog post to enable serp protection by @chrmod in #1496
- Remove misleading close button in panel notification by @smalluban in #1497
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.9 Pre-release (Jan 12, 2024)
- Fix pin-it position on onboarding for Opera One UI redesign by @smalluban in #1438
- Add workaround to start background process in Safari by @smalluban in #1439
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.8 (Jan 11, 2024)
- Add separate ios/mac targets with fixed DNR ruleset (#1435)
- Temporary turn of throw for DNR limit threshold
- Fix allow rule for paused website in chromium
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.5 (Nov 19, 2023)
- CI: run all tests in single job by @chrmod in #1369
- Fix daily stats for new tab extension by @smalluban in #1366
- Match v8 update schedule to each hour by @smalluban in #1373
- Rollback adblocker engines for Firefox by @smalluban in #1378
- Ensure to hide notification for contributors by @smalluban in #1377
- Update npm dependencies in v10 by @smalluban in #1380
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.12.4 (Nov 10, 2023)
- Changes:
- Fixes scriptlets injection to iframes ghostery/adblocker@6d49604
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.4 Pre-release (Nov 4, 2023)
- What's Changed:
- improved network filters that improve coverage substantially #1367
- fixes and improvements for cosmetic filter injection #1370
New in Ghostery for Chrome 10.2.4 Pre-release (Nov 4, 2023)
- What's Changed:
- improved network filters that improve coverage substantially #1367
- fixes and improvements for cosmetic filter injection #1370
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.12.2 (Oct 25, 2023)
- improves YouTube notification
- fixes pausing Ghostery on Chrome
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.12.0 Pre-release (Oct 22, 2023)
- Fix stats leaking between visits
- Offer opening Youtube in private window when adblocker gets blocked
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.11.2 (Sep 29, 2023)
- Fixes problem with opening extension pages in incognito windows on chromium
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.11.0 (Jul 11, 2023)
- New: Full Ghostery TrackerDB integration - new categories, more known trackers and information about non-trackers
- New: Updated category icons
- Improved: blocking against service worker cached requests
- Improved: panel feedback from Ad-blocking and Anti-Tracking
- Improved: Anti-Tracking coverage
- Improved: Anti-Tracking protection is working even if the tracker is set to "Trusted"
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.10.3 (Jun 2, 2023)
- New category icons in the panel
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.10.2 (May 17, 2023)
- Update Never-Consent rules.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.10.2 Pre-release (May 15, 2023)
- Update Never-Consent rules
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.10.1 (May 5, 2023)
- Fixes issues with onboarding and the panel UI on Opera and Edge caused by a broken build
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.10.0 Pre-release (Apr 29, 2023)
- A simpler onboarding experience for new users.
- Ghostery now blocks Google beacons.
- Ghostery now blocks more video ads on some adult entertainment sites.
- Removed extension update messages.
- Removed dead gcache links in detected tracker URLs.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.13 (Mar 18, 2023)
- Improved: Simplified Onboarding
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.10 (Mar 11, 2023)
- Improved: Simplified onboarding
- Improved: Ghost icon indicates inactive status
- Screenshot 2023-03-07 at 20 29 20
- Improved: Startup time and extension size
- Fixed: Trackers Preview translations
- Fixed: 100% CPU usage on Raspberry Pi OS (#1046) with help of @jimis
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.9 (Feb 15, 2023)
- Improvements:
- Ad-blocking: blocks more ads on youtube.com (#839)
- Bugfixes:
- Unlock browsers back-forward caching (#836)
- Ad-blocking: fix injection of Cosmetic Filters (#861)
- Ghostery accounts: fix session refresh on Firefox (#895)
- Android panel: new category icons
- Ad-blocking: fix uppercase patterns
- Community contributions:
- minor grammar fix (#898) by @jezmck
- Vietnamese translations by @tachibana-shin
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.8 (Dec 21, 2022)
- Fixed: error logs in web developer console (#707)
- Fixed: numerous non user-facing bugs
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.6 (Nov 19, 2022)
- Fixed: Never-Consent popup trackers summary was not translated (#938)
- Fixed: Trackers Preview could not be disabled from the popup (#941)
- Fixed: Trackers Preview popup resize properly (#941)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.5 (Nov 8, 2022)
- Improved: Contributor program replaces Subscriptions
- Improved: Never-Consent coverage (#921, #927)
- Fixed: Never-Consent re-triggering and other problems (#918, #919, #920, #924)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.4 (Oct 27, 2022)
- Improved: Never-Consent default choice changes to on all websites after second interaction with the Never-Consent popup (#912)
- Improved: Never-Consent popup recommended choice is more visible (#914)
- Fixed: Never-Consent should not re-trigger on subdomains (#911)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.3 (Oct 25, 2022)
- Features:
- Never-Consent automates the interaction with consent dialogs, expressing dissent to tracking.
- New onboarding (#877)
- Improvements:
- Ad-blocking: blocks more ads on youtube.com (#839)
- Bugfixes:
- Unlock browsers back-forward caching (#836)
- Ad-blocking: fix injection of Cosmetic Filters (#861)
- Ghostery accounts: fix session refresh on Firefox (#895)
- Android panel: new category icons
- Ad-blocking: fix uppercase patterns
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.2 Pre-release (Oct 21, 2022)
- Features:
- Never-Consent automates the interaction with consent dialogs, expressing dissent to tracking.
- New onboarding (#877)
- Improvements:
- Ad-blocking: blocks more ads on youtube.com (#839)
- Bugfixes:
- Unlock browsers back-forward caching (#836)
- Ad-blocking: fix injection of Cosmetic Filters (#861)
- Ghostery accounts: fix session refresh on Firefox (#895)
- Android panel: new category icons
- Ad-blocking: fix uppercase patterns
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.9.1 (Oct 17, 2022)
- Features:
- Never-Consent automates the interaction with consent dialogs, expressing dissent to tracking.
- New onboarding (#877)
- Improvements:
- Ad-blocking: blocks more ads on youtube.com (#839)
- Bugfixes:
- Unlock browsers back-forward caching (#836)
- Ad-blocking: fix injection of Cosmetic Filters (#861)
- Ghostery accounts: fix session refresh on Firefox (#895)
- Android panel: new category icons
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.7.5 (Jun 10, 2022)
- Ghostery Browser: fix default setting of WTM.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.7.3 (Jun 6, 2022)
- Fixed: Ghostery onboarding and update popup should no longer be displayed on every startup #500 - fixed with following changes:
- Fixed: Firefox first party cookie isolation was breaking Ghostery settings #795
- Fixed: Ghostery account initialization could break extension startup #796
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.7.0 (Apr 19, 2022)
- Fixed: Memory leak in Chromium based browsers
- Update: adblocker engine update
- Improve: registration forms moved to ghostery.com
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.6.3 (Feb 25, 2022)
- Fixed: In a new installation, the AdBlocking engine started with the wrong block mode.
- Free up space in chrome.storage.local by deleting obsolete keys.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.6.2 (Feb 2, 2022)
- Add disable button on trackers preview iframe (#746)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.6.1 (Jan 18, 2022)
- Settings: option to disable Trackers Preview on search results (#742)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.8 (Jul 1, 2021)
- Fixes panel header alignment in Chrome (#713)
- Adds cross-extension messaging for Ghostery Search (#712)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.7 (Jun 24, 2021)
- Remove promo modals for Insights and Midnight (#706)
- Allow host name fuzzy matching for Compatibility URLs (#680)
- Add subscription status to CMP fetch URL (#694)
- Avoid possible race condition in ABTest & CMP on Dawn (#687)
- Updates to intro hub (#711, #710, #708)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.5 (Feb 27, 2021)
- Integrate new v4 tracker databases (#616)
- Pull tracker meta data from whotracks.me (#616)
- Migrate from Cliqz browser-core to ghostery-common (#644)
- Allow user to disable automatic updates for Anti-Tracking and Ad-Blocker (#646, #561)
- New on-boarding hub for Ghostery Browser (#665)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.4 (Nov 21, 2020)
- Adds support for Ghostery Browser (#621, #622)
- Remove Ghostery Rewards (#630)
- Updated feature names (#613, #626, #627)
- Shortened metrics uninstall URL (#615)
- Fixes bug with initial account settings sync (#629)
- Bug fixes (#617, #624, #625, #628)
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.3 (Oct 9, 2020)
- Updated Firefox Android extension panel UI and mobile optimizations (#587)
- New console debugging interface for user troubleshooting (#568)
- Display error message after too many failed login attempts (#577)
- Add opt-out for AB Tests (#608)
- Added product id parameter to extension pings (#574)
- Detect Ghostery Desktop Browser (#602)
- Remove broken page pings (#609)
- On-boarding AB Tests (#603)
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.2 (Jul 31, 2020)
- Fixes bug where Ghostery icon could be grayed out on restricted sites (#564)
- Clean up lint suppression rules. Remove React UNSAFE events. (#559, #566)
- Fixes bug where themes were not unlocked on upgrade (#555)
- Add upgrade promotion to Intro Hub (#551)
- Adds options for yearly subscription plans (#567)
- Rate limit password reset attempts (#548)
- Add A/B testing support to promo modals (#583)
- Updates to account creation panel messaging (#541)
- Slimmer Human Web modules for Android browsers (#569)
- Remove Spring promo modal (#571)
- Search for missing language tokens (#563)
- Updated campaign metrics (#576)
- Update dependencies
- Bump minimum versions for Firefox, Chrome and Opera
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.1 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Unlock Plus features for Ghostery Midnight users (#546)
- Update Ghostery Plus feature list in subscription panel (#540)
- Remove hard-coded subscription pricing (#547)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.5.0 (May 7, 2020)
- New Spring themes for Plus subscribers (#525)
- New settings option to select Ad-Blocker lists (#527)
- Add password reset link to Intro Hub (#507)
- Updated in-app promo modals (#509)
- Fixes bug in site-specific tracker white-listing (#522, Fixes #519)
- Improved Click2Play Script Injection (#528)
- Standardize all Ghostery staging and production global URLs (#511)
- Updated Rewards UI (#521)
- Update legacy unit tests (#526)
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.9 (Apr 14, 2020)
- Better handling of semantic version comparison (#524)
- Updates to AMO build script (#524)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.8 (Mar 31, 2020)
- Fixes issue that could intermittently cause some cookies to be reset (Fixes #514)
- Handle legacy opt-in settings for Firefox (#518)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.7 (Mar 9, 2020)
- Migrate to the new Chromium-based Edge browser (#492)
- Disable Purplebox on Firefox Android (#494)
- Allow white-listing of wildcard domains (#501)
- Allow site-specific white-listing of Unknown Trackers caught by Ad-Blocker (#503)
- Fixes issue when adding localhost to Trusted Sites with port value (Fixes #470)
- Add locale-appropriate formatting to historical stats numbers (#498)
- Remove email opt-in from account creation in panel and hub (#495)
- More aggressive cookie-blocking via Anti-Tracking (#490)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.6 (Dec 26, 2019)
- Modularize Rewards code (#462)
- Updated promo modals for Ghostery Midnight (#485, #486)
- Disabled Rewards for Edge (#483)
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.5 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Remove unused telemetry from promo modals (#474)
- Update Rewards opt-in setting for Firefox
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.4 (Nov 11, 2019)
- New upgrade modals for Ghostery Plus & Ghostery Insights (#458,#460,#463,#464,#467,#468)
- Improves context-detection of WebRequests, particularly for pages using service workers (#461)
- Fixes some cases where cookies were blocked for first parties because anti-tracking thought they were third (#461)
- Updates Ad Blocker version. We now support HTML filters on Firefox (#461)
- Human Web cleanup and refactor (#461)
- Updated telemetry (#466)
- Updated translations
- Language string cleanup
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.3 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Fixes issue where Detail View is blank when there are only Unknown trackers found (#446)
- New opt-in flow for Ghostery Rewards (#444)
- Uncheck email promotions options for create account view (#446)
- Revert Rewards opt-in setting for Firefox (#446)
- Compatibility fixes for Cliqz browser (#450, #452, #455)
- Fixes issue where Ghostery on-boarding Hub appeared on each browser launch (Fixes #456)
- Fixes issue where site-specific blocking settings did not persist for some users
- Fixes for AMO build script
- Update project dependencies
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.2 (Aug 28, 2019)
- Fix slow memory leak in Firefox (#434)
- Fix error message on Forgot Password panel (#440)
- Update Intro Hub copy for Firefox (#436)
- Change Rewards opt-in setting for Firefox (#437)
- Adds Cliqz anti-ad-blocker circumvention rules (#443)
- Package build script for AMO review (#441)
- Updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.1 (Aug 7, 2019)
- Add new Unknown tracker category in detail view with anti-tracking whitelist (#417, #433)
- Fixes broken target=_blank links in Opera (#426)
- Fixes error Uncaught TypeError: c.querySelectorAll (#406)
- Show ad-blocking icons in detail view tracker list (#411)
- Add new terms and conditions acknowledgment to account creation(#414)
- Implement new Cliqz url parser (#410)
- Fix donut tooltip (#409)
- Fix bug in collapsed Summary view on un-scanned pages (#404)
- Improved broken page metrics (#418)
- Update all project dependencies to satisfy security alerts (#405)
- Updated translations (#402)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.4.0 (Jun 25, 2019)
- Add new counter for Requests Modified by Anti-Tracking (#392)
- Show fingerprint, cookie and advertisement icons in Detail View tracker list (#394)
- Improved Anti-Tracking integration (#377)
- Integrate Click2Play into SmartBlocking (#388)
- Respect pause state before displaying CMP and Rewards windows (Fies #389)
- Performance improvements (Fies #12)
- Improved Ad-Blocker filter rule injection (Fies #381)
- Updated translations (#397, #400)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.3.4 (May 9, 2019)
- Fixes bug in Click2Play redirect blocking
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.3.3 (Apr 25, 2019)
- Fixes bug where Ad-Blocker/Anti-Tracking modules did not respect whitelist settings
- Fixes bug in category description names
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.3.2 (Apr 17, 2019)
- Ghostery tracker panel now updates dynamically in real time!
- Remove unsupported file types for Opera automated-review
- Removed unnecessary files for slimmer production build
- Sync account creation UI between intro hub, panel and auth-web
- Performance improvements when browsing certain Google sites (gmail, maps)
- Feature parity for Edge browser (Human Web, Rewards)
- Clean up various errors thrown by content scripts and message handlers
- Updated Readme (team members and open-source projects)
- Minor UI tweaks
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.3.1 (Jan 31, 2019)
- Add options_ui support for Intro Hub
- Add Ghostery Plus support for Opera and Edge
- Fixes issue where page load speed value could be negative
- Fixes "Report a Broken Page" link
- Multiple translation fixes
- Minor bug fixes
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.3.0 (Jan 16, 2019)
- New Ghostery Plus features - Historical Stats, Midnight Theme
- New intro hub with streamlined setup and tutorial
- Improved UI for Firefox Android
- Integration with Ghostery Tab extension for Chrome
- Improved anti-tracking whitelist logic
- Improved anti-ad-blocker circumvention
- Bug fixes and updated translations
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.6 (Dec 5, 2018)
- Remove WebSocket permissions and filter support for Firefox
- Minor UI tweaks
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.5 (Nov 21, 2018)
- Multiple UI fixes for Rewards panel
- Bump minimum Chrome version to 58+, Opera to 45+
- Added support for web socket request filtering
- Minor UI tweaks and bug fixes
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.4 (Aug 17, 2018)
- Fixes Firefox account logout issues
- Fixes several UI-related Rewards bugs
- Fixes broken settings export feature from panel
- Delay tracker database update to 1 hour
- Improved AUTH error messaging
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.3 (Aug 8, 2018)
- Fix Rewards campaign names that include a '%' issue, which caused a blank panel
- Fix login and register forms on setup page being called twice on submit, which triggered misleading callout messages
- Fix several login/logout issues for existing users on startup
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.2 (Aug 7, 2018)
- Complete rewrite of account logic to support v2 AUTH API
- Fixes issue where some users did not remain logged in after browser restart
- Improved error messaging related to user accounts
- Login state now syncs between extension and account.ghostery.com
- Rewards UI improvements
- Fixes Anti-tracking login issue with microsoft.com and salesforce.com
- Fixes issue where Ghostery was breaking web requests from other extensions
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.1 (Jul 16, 2018)
- Ghostery tracker counter and badge icon now includes block counts from Anti-Tracking and Ad-Blocker
- Fixes issue where settings menu does not close
- Remove redundant opt-in for Rewards
- Improved translations for German and Russian languages
- Styling adjustments and improvements for Edge
- Various bug fixes and improvements for Rewards
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.2.0 (Jul 2, 2018)
- Improved simple-view and detail-view UI
- Ghostery Rewards integration
- Fixes for Ad-Blocker cosmetic filters on Chrome
- Move dependency manager to Yarn
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.1.3 (Jun 1, 2018)
- Fix for 100% CPU on Chrome 67 from synchronous XHR
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.1.2 (Apr 20, 2018)
- Remove WebSocket filter scheme support for older versions of Chrome and FF
- Fix Human Web endpoint URLs
New in Ghostery for Chrome 8.0.0.34 (Dec 7, 2017)
- Enhanced Antitracking
- Enhanced Adblocking
- Smart Blocking
- Simplified Setup
- Simple View
- New Default Settings
- Expanded Detail View
- Snooze feature for Pause
- New Dashboards (coming soon)
New in Ghostery for Chrome 7.1.2.3 (Jan 13, 2017)
- New User Features:
- New opt-in option during setup for usage analytics pings
- Rebuilt tracker profiles and track URL pages for improved performanced
- Fixed Defects:
- Fixed user settings autosaving [FIREFOX only]
- Fixed bug that blocked new trackers by default
- Fixed backend bugs
New in Ghostery for Chrome 7.1.1 (Jan 13, 2017)
- NEW USER FEATURES:
- Improved performance
- Removed collapse panel
- NEW BUSINESS FEATURES:
- Updates to usage metrics pings.
- FIXED DEFECTS:
- Several page fixes (surrogates)
- Fixed manual refresh issue for verified accounts
New in Ghostery for Chrome 7.1.0.49 (Oct 31, 2016)
- Refined purple box that is more compact and less intrusive
- Option to hide purple box on trusted pages
- Improved performance across all browsers
- Import / export local settings
- Validation criteria for longer passwords with more characters
- New setting to hide the tracker count from the toolbar
- Minor improvements & fixes to the UI/UX
- Fixed account & language syncing
- Fixed language-specific UI conflicts
- New surrogates to fix several broken page issues
- Minor backend fixes
New in Ghostery for Chrome 5.0.0 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Redesigned findings panel.
- Implemented site-specific tracker unblocking.
- Implemented Click-to-Play for video player, commenting widget and social button trackers.
- Restyled options and walkthrough pages.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 4.1.2 (Jun 7, 2013)
- Fixed alert bubbles/library update notifications for Chrome 28 and up.
- Updated bundled tracker and surrogate script libraries.
New in Ghostery for Chrome 4.1.1 (Apr 19, 2013)
- Switched GhostRank to HTTPS for better privacy/security.
- Disabled page-level GhostRank on trackerless pages.
- Updated bundled tracker and surrogate libraries.