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If you use Ghostery to block unwanted page elements, and you come across a site that's broken because of Ghostery's blocking, you can help all Ghostery users by describing the problem in this thread.
These kinds of problems come up because you blocked something the site (unreasonably) depends on.
A common example would be Omniture, a tracking/analytics company. A page might issue a call to its embedded Omniture bug in order to register some action on your part: perhaps clicking "next" in a slideshow, or adding an item to your cart.
That call is directly tied to whatever it is you were trying to do, so that if the call fails (when Omniture is unexpectedly absent, for instance), your action fails as well.
Ghostery for Firefox and Opera includes surrogate script support. Surrogate scripts supplied by Ghostery provide the code to allow sites to continue to work even when the page elements they require had gotten blocked.
Surrogate support is on the way to Ghostery for Chrome and Safari.
Thanks for using and contributing to Ghostery!
Ghostery's blocking breaks functionality on websites
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Not kidding. :P
3The headlines read...
"Ghostery's blocking breaks functionality on websites"
I suppose that's one way to look at it, but having said that, I really don't think that the characterization is accurate.
Isn't it more appropriate to explain it this way?:
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Ghostery for Chrome 3.0.0, out now, also supports surrogates.
http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016... -
Ghostery for Safari 1.3.0, out now, comes with initial surrogate support.
http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016...
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Tagged.com has broken functionality on several pages if Google Adsense is blocked in Ghostery. Pretty draconian tactics in my view. Is there a way to tell Ghostery to only allow Google Adsense when I am visiting Tagged?
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Yahoo Mail loses all button functionality with the latest Ghostery release
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I click on links that are supposed to open a new page and they are blocked by ghostery , what could be causing this?
other than that I havent had any problems thank good ness- view 1 more comment
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chrome://ghostery-resource/content/blocked_redirect.html#
Pausing ghostery still no change.
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After you pause Ghostery, are you reloading the page?
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Ghostery is blocking me from logging in to Tumblr. When ever I try to login instead of redirecting me to my Dashboard page like it's supposed it just keeps redirecting me to the login page.
I think this has something to do with the captcha service that Tumblr uses, because with ghostery enabled I don't see a captcha but when I disable Ghostery I am able to see the captcha and login. -
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I have Firefox 18.0.1 for a browser. I've tried to pay a bill online at Verizon Wireless, when Ghostery is actively blocking and it's a no-go. Pausing Ghostery and then starting again at the sign-in page at Verizon Wireless allows for me to pay my bill online (now that 25 3pes are tracking me).
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/in... -
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rtlnow.de does not work without DoubleClick (detects Adblocker)
Example:
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MacOS 10.6.8, Safari 5.1.7, Ghostery 1.4.1 blocks showing the signin userid name and password fields on Quicken Live Community
https://accounts.intuit.com/signin.ht...=
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The calendar popups when one clicks in the Leave and Return date entry boxes on http://www.orbitz.com/flights/ do not appear when Ghostery is enabled for that page.
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Blocking for the following Advertising elements must be disabled:
- "5min Media" (to see the video at www.dailymotion.com/video/xoqzfc_kate...).
- "ADTECH" (to see the video at http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/...).
- "Auditude" (to see the videos at www.g4tv.com).
- "Criteo" (to download files from http://uptobox.com).
- "ExoClick" (to see the videos at www.xpipole.com).
- "FreeWheel" (to see the videos at http://video.cnbc.com).
- "JuggCash" (to see the videos at http://www.brazzers.com/scenes/view/id).
- "OpenX" (to see some thumbnails, like the "More Videos Like This One:", or "Popular Videos" on www.break.com).
- "RichRelevance" (to see the products seen by the other customers on www.cdiscount.com).
- "SMART AdServer" (to see the "Ontop" bar and the "sliding" part on www.melty.fr).
- "Unruly Media" (to see the "Must See Videos and Photos" block on www.i4u.com/2012/10/paris/1602-1602-r...).
Blocking for the following Analytics elements must be disabled:
- "ForeSee" (so that the videos and the "Sorting By" rating work on http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard).
- "Google Analytics" (so that the clicks on www.asus.com's banner open the links).
Blocking for the following Trackers elements must be disabled:
- "Omniture" (to see the pictures on www.nydailynews.com/entertainment).
- "Parse.ly" (so that the thumbnails for "You May Also Like" appear on http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/06...).
- "WebTrends" (so that clicks on "Popular resources" work on www.microsoft.com/download/en/details...).
Blocking for the following Widgets elements must be disabled:
- "AddThis" (so that the "leaderboard" bar from http://knowyourmeme.com work).
- "Crowd Ignite" (to see the thumbnails "AROUND THE WEB" on www.tmz.com/2011/06/02/chyna-fired-xx...).
- "Google +1" (for the doodle to work and that the "more doodles" list to appear on www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-7...).
- "Google AJAX Search API" (to see the videos at http://updatestar.com).
- "Google Widgets" (to see the animation at http://www-blogger-opensocial.googleu...).
- "Kaltura" (to see the video on www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/il-sed...).
- "Livefyre" (to see the comments at www.gamespot.com/dmc-devil-may-cry/vi...).
- "nRelate" (to see the thumbnails of "Je vous recommande aussi la lecture des sujets suivants..." at http://korben.info/le-sdk-android-nes...).
- "ShareThis" (for being abled to access the social features of the left bar at www.brighthub.com).
- "SoundCloud" (to be abled to listen to music on www.nofrag.com/2012/aou/06/40893).
- "Twitter Badge" (for the script to work on http://isjeremyeatingtoast.com).
Additionally, Zippyshare.com downloads only work when Ghostery is disabled; adding zippyshare to the whitelist is not enough.
=================================================================The following are widgets not correctly working with Ghostery's Click-to-Play feature:
- "Brightcove" (for the play button to work on the video at www.thefrisky.com/2012-08-14/watch-th...).
- "Disqus" (to see the comments at http://mrstiff.com/movie).
- "Facebook Connect" and "Facebook Social Plugins" (to see the comments on http://updatestar.com). -
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Ghostery prevents any regular download on turbobit.net : clicking on the "Regular Downloads" button leads to a chrome://ghostery-resource/content/blocked_redirect.html page ("Ghostery prevented a redirect from turbobit.net to wmedia.rotator.hadj7.adjuggler.net,
which is part of AdJuggler"). One has to go back to the previous page in order to download.-
This is working as expected. Download links on that site send you through AdJuggler. Unblock AdJuggler, pause blocking or whitelist the site to use the links. The Ghostery blocked redirect page should provide you with an unblock AdJuggler button for easy unblocking.
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Problem with Barclays internet banking.
Login works fine, but Opera (11.64) freezes when I try to view my account.
The offending blocked item is Omniture Touch Clarity.
I have (unhappily) whitelisted 'bank.barclays.co.uk' to get round the problem, but would prefer a substitute script if that were possible. -
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Ghostery breaks GMail
If Ghostery is enabled in Opera (11.64) GMail freezes while loading the main page (after login).
Whitelisting maill.google.com does not help, nor does pausing ghostery. I have to disable ghostery from the settings page. Once the main page has been loaded I can reenable ghostery and everything works. It appears that ghostery is interfering with the loading of my profile.-
This is a great conversation that's separate from the main topic, so I created a new topic to continue the discussion. Please reference the new topic here: Ghostery breaks GMail in Opera
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I am using Ghostery 3.1.0 with Chrome (4.1.0 doesn't work for me, games won't load). With my FB games, things were fine until last Monday. I don't know if it is a change in FB or a change in the game in question, Sims Social, but I am no longer able to play Sims Social without disabling Ghostery.
Apparently it is not just Ghostery - their recommended workaround from their forum is to disable all ad blockers. I don't know if this change was made intentionally to force folks to disable their ad blockers/trackers, though I would not be surprised as it is an EA/Origin game and their shelf games are notorious for poking in your privates and sending info back to them.-
CJ, please whitelist apps.facebook.com or once you load the game, open Ghostery panel, press Edit Blocking Options, and then press Do not blcok on ..... This should help the game work properly.
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itos funny how chrome and firef0x usrz complain xD long life OPERA! -
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Cannot log in to Macworld.com.
Safari 5.1.7
OS X 10.6.8
Select Sign in on www.macworld.com; the SIGN IN button in unresponsive.
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There are numerous sites with video will not play unless I disable Ghostery so this surrogate scripting does not work (I use Firefox). There may be 10 trackers and I may be willing to let one track if I could tell which one is essential.
But definitely surrogate scripting does not work at all for many, many sites.
It is definitely getting to where I feel I am losing the battle and will have to remove Ghostery and give in- view 1 more comment
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ESPN.....pretty much all videos there. Disable Ghostery and they work
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Please subscribe to https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/... for ESPN video issues.
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[Ghostery 2.9.2 / FF 19.0.2]
Surrogate script is NOT working for the download page for Adobe Flash Player when OMNITURE is BLOCKED. The "Download Now" button no longer shows.
OMNITURE unBLOCKED:
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This is a great conversation that's separate from the main topic, so I created a new topic to continue the discussion. Please reference the new topic here: Omniture on adobe.com
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On www.cdw.com, if you select the pulldown for Need Help and choose Send E-mail, it doesn't work with Ghostery turned on.
Safari 5.1.7
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debenhams.com: The "Select Size" dropdown box is broken with Ghostery turned on :(
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Hello, I am using FB to play several games as ZooWorld, Hidden Chronicles & Coasterville. The two Zynga games load without the normal requests and I cannot post in order to ask for items and ZooWorld does only load half of the game ... I am using latest Chrome browser (25.0.1364.172 m). Thanks for the help as I am totally new to Ghostery and do not know which items I have to enable in order to load the games properly. Oh yeah, and I use Game Feeds as well to collect items for above mentioned games and it does not load properly either, I have enabled FB Social Plugins & FB Connect again, but does not help as much as I thought.
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This is a great conversation that's separate from the main topic, so I created a new topic to continue the discussion. Please reference the new topic here: Facebook issues in Chrome
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Add me to the list of issues with websites. Using Firefox, ancestry.com has issues with Omniture. A drop down box is unable to be clicked on to see menu on one page.
From the pedigree page, unable to click on ANYTHING in that sequence. I ruled it out to be Scorecard Research Beacon as the culprit. GRRRR.-
Hi Carrie,
If you are using the new 2.9.3 you can use the new site selective whitelisting and allow Omniture only on that page, but continue to block elsewhere. -
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This is a great conversation that's separate from the main topic, so I created a new topic to continue the discussion. Please reference the new topic here: Problems with ancestry.com
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Most of the functionality of Kickstarter.com, including all drop-down menus, message replies, and menu scrolling, are broken in Firefox (19.0.2 and higher) with Ghostery (v2.9.3) enabled. As an easy-to-see example of the problem, clicking on a FAQ on the bottom of any project page does not display the answer as it should. -
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Over the past few weeks, I've been blaming my ISP for very slow loading web pages or some not loading at all. After experimenting with Chrome and IE, I have tracked the problem down to Firefox (V19 & 20) and Ghostery. Ghostery wouldn't even load this page until I turned it off.
Interestingly I also have Ghostery installed on Chrome and that doesn't have the same problems.
I know it's very difficult to isolate a problem because of all the addons that are available.- view 2 more comments
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Keep me posted.
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I unticked all the scan options and now Facebook won't load at all.
I think the problem is tied to Firefox as I have Ghostery on Chrome and when I have a problem loading with FF, I go to Chrome and the page in question loads instantly.
If that's the case, isolating the problem in FF will be a nightmare! -
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I unticked all the scan options and now Facebook won't load at all.
I think the problem is tied to Firefox as I have Ghostery on Chrome and when I have a problem loading with FF, I go to Chrome and the page in question loads instantly.
If that's the case, isolating the problem in FF will be a nightmare!-
agreed.. which is why trying a fresh profile is the easiest way to see if its the FFX profile or Ghostery.. and that way you don't have to change any of your profile settings.. you can just revert back to the original.
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gumtree.com.au - a very popular Australian site is broken. After you search, the sort drop down box fails to work unless you enable Google Analytics. I'm using Ghostery 2.9.3, Linux FF 19 + 20.
Great software, thanks :-)-
Hi Jeffrey,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
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don't know why I can't get into sites even after pausing. . . .- view 6 more comments
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http://www.petfoodindustry.com/TopPet... will not allow sign in with FB
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I was able to login with Facebook with full blocking on Firefox 20 and Ghostery 2.9.3..
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Google Chrome (Version 26.0.1410.65)
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AFFECTED WEBSITE
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https://www.udemy.com (e.g. https://www.udemy.com/courses/featured)
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Firefox 22.0a2 and Ghostery 2.9.3
url: http://www.ilpost.it/amedeobalbi/2013...
Disqus widget not loaded (and it's fine because I've blocked it) but the click2play buttons doesn't appear -
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Yikes, I had to unblock Omniture to get comments on slate.com (Mountain Lion, Safari 6.0.1, Ghostery 1.42). Would love to be able to block Omniture without losing comments. As it is, I unblock it only on a page-by-page basis if I want comments specifically.
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Ghostery often blocks Flash video in Safari, e.g. at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/201... .
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Hi Marty,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
It looks like its the Brightcove tracker causing issues.. You can uncheck it by clicking on the Ghostery icon > edit blocking options.
We are working on site selective whitelisting in Safari which should be out soon. -
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That worked - thanks.
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I am running Ghostery in Firefox. Starting about 4/25 one of the Internet Brands sites I use daily started losing functionality as it appears Ghostery is now blocking a gif that makes a necessary link/icon disappear.
Everything worked fine until about a week ago.
mms.ibsrv.net/includes/css/thickbox.css
mms.ibsrv.net/images/Modelmayhem_head.jpg
mms.ibsrv.net/favicon.ico
mms.ibsrv.net/images/vip.png
mms.ibsrv.net/images/badges/forum/admin_forum.gif
mms.ibsrv.net/images/last2.gif
pxl.ibpxl.com/modelmayhem.com.js
cdcssl.ibsrv.net/modelmayhem/images/loadingAnimation.gif
mms.ibsrv.net/images/premium.png
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I just registered to report that the pprune.org website is rendered in a 'simple' non-CSS sort of way if the 'InternetBrands' block is on. It took me a while to figure it out...
Forum is: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news-13/
And then I noticed that the post above mine says much the same but with specific details - d'oh!- view 1 more comment
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It looks like other PPRuNe users have spotted it:
http://www.pprune.org/computer-intern...
The suggestion on there is that it was the most recent Ghostery update that triggered that behaviour. -
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Yes, it appears it was either the 4/25 or 4/28 update that screwed it up for multiple IB sites.
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the daily show (http://www.thedailyshow.com/) full episodes break on ad markers when using ABP and Ghostery (on Chrome).
see also
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtop...
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Hello Folks!
I like Ghostery above all the other Privacy Extensions. I can hardly wait for surrogate script support for Chrome or more specifically. Comodo Dragon (a Chrome Based Browser). I use Comodo because it is so much more protective for my system while being user friendly. Pretty much all their products rock (except "Geek Buddy" - where customer support in India will most likely try to remotely screw up your computer due to incompetence - or maybe it's just cultural differences)
I have found Ghostery Blocks and must be "Exceptioned" for the following websites ...
Y! Screen and Y! News
Home Depo
Lowes
Yahoo - Mail
Weather.com
RioGrande.com
As I understand it, a surrogate script support will still allow me privacy, but allow the site to not be blocked.
Oddly, if I try to open Ghostery settings from Dragon/Settings, Ghostery Settings, it is blocked. If I try to open it from the Ghostery Icon at the top right of the page, it opens.
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On Seamless (www.seamless.com) if Coremetrics is block, the reorder option does not work. It happens on the My Order History tab when you first log in and previous orders are displayed, and it also happens if you go to My Account | Order History and click on any of the Re-Order links.
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When blocking bazaarvoice the web site www.riogrande.com comes up with a spinning circle and refuses to finish loading. Other blocks seem to be OK
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Graphics on the weather.com site are broken when blocking Brightcove.
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Hi Joe,
There is a LOT of tracking on weather.com.. Good blog post: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016... -
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It appears you still have not fixed the problem related to the InternetBrands server... they blame you, you blame them...
Do you think we can find a way that we can whitelist specific files rather than an entire site?
Do you think you can figure out how to block trackers without taking away things that are kinda essential, such as submit buttons and graphical link buttons.
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Sorry. I not speak english.
Ghostery (2.9.5 et 2.8.3) sur Firefox (13.0.1 et 21.0) rend impossible la recherche d'itinéraire sur les site www.viamichelin.be et www.viamichelin.fr
Même avec Ghostery en pause et/ou avec viamichelin en liste blanche, cela ne fonctionne pas. Il faut désactiver l'extension pour utiliser les sites viamichelin. -
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I was not able to watch pbs episodes (using firefox 20.0.1) at this url: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/vide.... I had to whitelist the domain in order to watch any video. Was able to have it work with adblock plus enabled.
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(Ghostery for iOS).
alpkit.com's actual shop no longer works properly. The homepage loads correctly as does the main 'shop' page:
http://www.alpkit.com/shop
But clicking on any product will then only load about 80% and then either stall indefinitely or occasionally it'll crash the app. eg:
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Twig,
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MetOffice local forecasts : http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/we... apparently depends on WebTrends ( http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/li... ) and/or PlusOne ( https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js ).
The divs where the specific forecast should be shown remain in their 'loading' state, and the divs containing the general forecast aren't hidden and remain visible at the bottom of the page. Looks like a tab malfunction to me. -
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I use Firefox v.21 as my default browse. I set Ghostery to block a tracker on BANKOFAMERICA.COM called "Coremetrics". Unfortunately this broke the functionality of many of the links at that site. After about 2 hours of troubleshooting I was able to track down the problem and fix it by simply unblocking that one tracker. The problem did not seem to occur with Chrome.
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Since I have blocked trackers on "Spielen.com", I have problems with playing "World of Zombies" at this page.
It freezes from time to time for a couple of seconds, sometimes nearly 30 sec.
WoZ is originally a game on Facebook developed in Russia.
Here the trackers whitch are blocked
-ADTECH
-Cedexis Radar
-Facebook Connect
-Gigya Socialize
-Google +1
-Google Adsense
-Google Analytics
-Improve Digital
-INFOnline
-KruxDigital
-Score Card Research Beacon
I use Firefox 21.0 with the newest Ghostery version (hope so^^)
Should I unblock one of the trackers?- view 2 more comments
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Thank you Pete for the quickly reply. I will unblock the tracker und we will see ;)
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keep me posted!
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With Ghostery enabled (default options), www.ticketmaster.com (as well as www.ticketmaster.ca and other sites) will not work when searching for a concert, the HTML busy spinner never comes back.
Also with Ghostery enabled, Engadget stories all show 0 Comments for some reason, but when you turn Ghostery off the comments show up like normal.- view 1 more comment
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Sorry, this is Safari 6.0.5 on Mac. It's not a problem, I just added the sites to the whitelist.
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great! Happy browsing.
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Firefox 21.0
Ghostery 2.9.5
Facebook apps don't load correctly with Ghostery running. It loads the top part of the page and breaks the ability to scroll down further into the app. Pausing Ghostery solves the problem, I've not been able to ID any specific blocked item as causing the problem.- view 4 more comments
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Ah! No, I've not had trouble with them when on outside pages, just inside. Thanks for the help!
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Happy to help! Let me know if you need anything in the future. you can also email me a support@ghostery.com
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store.apple.com depends on Omniture for some behavior. One example is the scroll right arrow near the top, after you select [Shop Mac] or [Shop iPad] or [Shop iPod], and the scroll left arrow that appears and allows you to return after you do scroll right.
Also, if you select a product with multiple pictorial representations, you get thumbnail images below the currently displayed picture. With Omniture blocked, clicking on another thumbnail to display its full image doesn't work.
P.S. If you turn off Omniture blocking in Ghostery's options, you have to refresh the page in order for these behaviors to start working again.
Mac OS X 10.8.4
Safari 6.0.5
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All entries to this point have been added to our compatibility issues database. In newer releases of Firefox and soon other browsers you will see a black exclamation point next to the tracker most likely causing your issue. Unblocking it will in most cases fix whatever issue you are encountering. Heres an example of Omniture on homedepot.com:
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