Safari Lion swallows blockers & spits them out

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Hi Bullwinkle,

Do you have any other extensions that clear your history? I am using Safari / Lion and Ghostery and all is working as expected.

Also, are you using the latest version of Ghostery, 1.3.0? Older Ghosteries are known to lose their settings every time you clear Safari history.

Hi Peter & Alexei

I'm sending you some screen shots of my problem. In the block conditions, you can see the "pre signing out of Safari" blocks & then how blocks disappear when I sign out & sign back in to Safari. I purposely set my computer so it didn't block cookies, third parties or anything else. Java remains secured as per Apple suggestions. I only have Side Tree Translation & Click to Flash extensions. I have tried removing them but it didn't solve the problem. I have reinstalled ghostery a couple of times to no avail. Normally at the end of my time on Safari there are a lot of sites who have put tracking caches on my computer. Often Ghostery isn't one of them or I would leave it there now. Don't know where G's cache disappears to. Right now I log in to Safari & go straight to Ghostery to re update everything again. Pretty much all blocks past 575 (500 or so) show they are no long blocked.
Thanks for all the work the gang does. Ghostery is still valuable even if I have redo blocking when I sign on. (Yes I am using the current version).
Bullwinkle

(I'll send them when I figure how)

Hi Bullwinkle,

Just to make sure I understand the issue:

1. Start Safari, install Ghostery, go to Ghostery's options.
2. Click on "Update now" to fetch the latest trackers.
3. Select all.
4. Click Save.

Then, after quitting Safari:

1. Start Safari, go to Ghostery's options.
2. See that half the tracker list is unchecked?

Is this the issue, or are any of the steps incorrect?

You have the steps exactly. Here are but a few of the over 400 sites left unblocked.

Do any other Ghostery preferences get reset/disappear after browser restart?

When you say

> When I update manually, it says it was successful but often asks me to update again. These updates are supposed to happen automatically since I have the extensions marked as such but that doesn't happen.

which updates are you referring to?

Further to this topic, I had simply given up fixing it & stopped using Ghostery for awhile. When I reinstalled Ghostery, I wanted to use it so just updated manually every time I logged on even though I had auto update enabled. Like I said the same number of blocked sites would be constant..575 approx even though I had updated the previous day. Since your new version, I see another part of the problem is when I log in again the next day, the date to be updated is a year previous in July, 2011. This date is also constant like the 575 was. Seems my computer is "stuck" in the past for some reason. Here are a couple of screen shots

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BTW I am now using Apple's Mountain Lion

Hi Bullwinkle,

We don't update the tracker definitions every day necessarily. Right now "Update successful" upon updating manually means either there was an update and you got it, or that you checked, but there was no update to get. In the future, we'll have a separate message for the "nothing to do" scenario.

Not sure how that answer fits since between 7/2011 and now over a year & a half later, there should be updates showing (over 500 since when the initial update "registered". When I update manually I get the whole blocker list but when I log out & log in again it will show the year 2011 and half of the blockers.
This means I constantly have to manually update to get the full complement of blockers.

Oh I see, you go back to the same frozen state still every time you restart.