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Will Ghostery for Chrome ever get the feature set that Ghostery for Firefox has?
Firefox treats cookies, frames and scripts from what I can see.
Second question how does Ghostery see a script from an unknown source? I would rather see unknown scripts blocked automatically. Users can always inspect the page and ID them and send it to Ghostery like crowd sourcing for third party scripts.
I know from uMatrix that Ghostery doesn't ID a lot of whats going on.
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for reaching out to Ghostery!
We are looking into bringing cookie protection to the other browsers as its built in Firefox.
As far as unknown sources. Ghostery only blocks what we know about and match in our tracker library. If you see any 3rd party scripts not detected please send them to us and we'll investigate and add if they fit the Ghostery model.Comment -
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I'm not sure that Chrome's API will allow decent cookie management.
The feature set you have brought to Firefox is impressive enough for me to take a look at it especially as they are working on the beginnings of a sandbox approach.-
That is part of the issue. Many of the Performance Options settings though would be nice to bring over.
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List of platform differences: https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/...
Cookie Protection is about the last thing I'd want to see ... it's not well documented, and does something completely different than what most people want (which is the kind of content blocking that's already built into the browser without needing Ghostery at all). This feature ought to be buried so deep in the advanced options that newbies won't be tempted to hurt themselves (and then pepper us with complaints).
"Unknown" scripts are often frameworks like BigCommerce, Demandware, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Shopify, etc. — things that are absolutely critical to functionality, and messing with them will break everything. -
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It seems from this that there are considerable differences in the two versions.
https://www.ghostery.com/en/help/firefox
I just note that from using another script blocker that there are some things either missing or referred to differently. I could install the two and give you exact differences.
Chrome's built in cookie management is terrible. If you allow third party cookies on one site it seems to allow it everywhere. I imagine as I stated earlier that Chrome's API for cookie management is lacking. -
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