I’m frustrated
Julian July 25, 2012 18:46

Pulsitemeter.com Must be Blocked

I am using Ghostery 1.3.0 with Safari 5.1.7 (running Mac OS 10.6.8) and it seems to be blocking a lot of stuff.

Unfortunately, it does not block a particular site’s cookies that I was hoping it would. It is a nasty site called “pulsitemeter.com” that evidently tracks the terms you type into search engines and then creates ugly, useless web pages highlighting these terms, along with a lot of other random phrases that are now seemingly associated with what you were searching for.

This is very annoying if you monitor your own online presence, because if you search on your own name it creates more junk as you look for already existing pages you might want to have removed. I would love it if this site didn’t exist—it really does nothing besides pollute search engine results—but I guess the best we can do is include it on blocker programs such as yours so it has less data to work with.

Could you add the cookies and other tracking entities from “pulsitemeter.com” to your list of blocked bugs?

Thank you very much for considering this and for making this useful extension available for free.
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    Pete (Senior Communications Manager) July 25, 2012 19:21
    Hi Julian,

    Thanks for using Ghostery!

    We will look into it. Thanks for the heads up.
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    Julian July 25, 2012 19:28
    I am using Ghostery 1.3.0 with Safari 5.1.7 (running Mac OS 10.6.8) and it seems to be blocking a lot of stuff.

    Unfortunately, it does not block a particular site’s cookies that I was hoping it would. It is a nasty site called “pulsitemeter.com” that evidently tracks the terms you type into search engines and then creates ugly, useless web pages highlighting these terms, along with a lot of other random phrases that are now seemingly associated with what you were searching for.

    This is very annoying if you monitor your own online presence, because if you search on your own name it creates more junk as you look for already existing pages you might want to have removed. I would love it if this site didn’t exist—it really does nothing besides pollute search engine results—but I guess the best we can do is include it on blocker programs such as yours so it has less data to work with.

    Could you add the cookies and other tracking entities from “pulsitemeter.com” to your list of blocked bugs?

    Thank you very much for considering this and for making this useful extension available for free.

    This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
    Pulsitemeter.com Must be Blocked.
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    Eric P. Scott July 25, 2012 20:19
    I'm not sure I understand what you expect Ghostery to do for you. How did you even find this site? It doesn't look to me like a tracker, and the only interesting reference it makes is to Reinvigorate, which Ghostery already knows about.

    If it's polluting search engine results, perhaps you should get in touch with the people who operate the search engines, e.g.


    BTW, www.juicyfinder.com bears strong similarities.

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