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Hi, Ghosts! I've told Ghostery not to block the New York Daily News site (nydailynews.com) because photo galleries on that site (like http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainm...) won't work if I block bugs. Unfortunately, the pages slow to a crawl the more gallery pages I view, and Ghostery shows as many as 34 (34!) bugs being blocked. Eventually, I crash. (This wasn't a problem before I installed Ghostery.) What I'd like to be able to do is to make exceptions to my exception, like this: don't block nydailynews.com, BUT block Google Analytics, AdBrite, ComScore Beacon (and so on) on newyorkdailynews.com. Do you know what I mean? I need to be able to navigate the galleries, *but* I don't want to load as many as 34 bits of junk. I'd like to be able to pick and choose which things I'll allow to load while I'm loading the Daily News. This way I could turn off most of the crap that's loading and (potentially) slowing down my browsing through the photo galleries.
Thanks for considering it, and I loves me my Ghostery, as well as the opportunity to contribute!
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I’m
a little frustrated
I want Ghostery to make blocking exceptions on non-blocked sites
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Hi Binky,
Thanks for reporting slowing down/crashing on nydailynews.com. I'm going to look into it.
As for galleries not working when blocking is enabled, see some of the threads here: http://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/s....
We've had several requests for per-site blocking exceptions (don't block the tracker on a particular site but block it elsewhere), usually to work around the blocked tracker breaking site functionality. The answer might be to add more script surrogates to Ghostery to fix site functionality. This is an ongoing issue. -
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I’m
delighted!
Hi, Alexi:
Yay! I'm glad I made myself understood, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to locate other requests first (I couldn't think of the correct search terms). I'll keep my peepers peeled for an enhancement at some future date.
Thanks for the acknowledgement, and for the pointer to other threads for more info!
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The next version of Ghostery for Safari should work better on nydailynews.com galleries. It's scheduled for release in about a month from now. Let me know (alexei at ghostery dot com) if you'd like to get a preview build.
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I’m
thankful! Delighted! Hopeful!
Thanks, Alexei! I've emailed you!
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CHAMP
Could you start a new "idea" thread with some examples of what you'd like to see?