Ghostery always opens a tab on every chrome startup, please stop this behavior.

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Got new workstation now and still use chrome/ghostery extensively and it works for most web loads except where google might be having issues with other behemoths like themselves so they tend to move slow on those fixes until the behemoths settle down for a while. That is Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/Samsung/google/[frickin]Adobe etc. Anyway more to the point I pretty much exempt google followings and ad tagging and block almost everything else except when I do a click on a ghostery triangle to get a video at the occasional site. (Okay I'm a bit of a google shill) Before, my workstation was dying and i would always reboot obviously during the 8 crashes per day or when the temperatures fall below 62 degrees or so, precipitation more crashes, so I wouldn't try to recover indexes on the old imac but rather started fresh so the browser sometimes would always be starting without it's history among other extension switches. But yeah annoying. I like it when ghostery stops certain videos cause when you click back in, (costs one click) but, I'm effectively skipping the ad at time zero on the content video I wanted in the first place. hehehehehe. Yeah, tools like ghostery tend to get business sites of any kind all jumbled up in their undies and they start getting stupid. Too bad, ghostery and other tools like it are great training for never going to annoying prying sites in the first place. (which is many if not most sites). I.E. it trains us to vote with our feet, one of our only eyeball weapons of choice in the conquest of our psyches. There's always other places to go and when you get right down to it, the best stuff on the internet is free.

Does the maccleanse wipe out extension settings? Does it correspond to a revert back to the tabs opening up after you run the program? Also try disabling all other add ons, click "Skip wizard" restart the browser and then enable again.

Yes I think MacCleanse did wipe some brower (chrome) settings on it's clean up routine. I wasn't crazy about MacCleanse's new subscription policy, and thought CleanMyMac 2 was better sales policy, might not be as powerful as (configurable ?) MacCleanse, not really sure, but anyway I switched and will watch my next clean up and super duper back up to see if cleanmymac 2 does similar browser effects, e.g. forcing the user to re-filter desired ghostery behaviors settings as per user wishes. Doesn't take that long but hey it's something I had to do. In a couple of months I'll be able to tell if I'm annoyed at CleanMyMac 2 in any similar way. Remember my old work station imac was crashing a lot off and on. (old imac was a lot like and old car, ran great in the summer and not so much in the winter) So it's too early to tell if other system cleaners are still creating issues with ghostery or any other software locally for folks like me.