Compare Edge add-ons: Ghostery Tracker Ad Blocker - Privacy AdBlock vs Country Flags & IP Whois

Stats Ghostery Tracker Ad Blocker - Privacy AdBlock Ghostery Tracker Ad Blocker - Privacy AdBlock Country Flags & IP Whois Country Flags & IP Whois
User count 937,611 10,009
Average rating 4.20 3.80
Rating count 175 6
Last updated 2024-03-22 2024-01-14
Size 10.96M 5.72M
Version 8.12.8 0.6.3
Short description
Ghostery is a powerful privacy extension. Block ads, stop trackers and speed up websites. Displays country flag of website's server location, Whois and Geo info
Full summary

Ghostery counts more than 100+ million downloads worldwide.

Ghostery for Edge provides safe, fast, and clutter-free browsing for free. The browser extension upgrades your Edge browser and supplies full adblock functionality, stops trackers from accessing your personal data, and annoying cookie consent pop-ups.

Ghostery has three main components:

  • Ad-Blocking - blocks all ads on websites you visit with your Edge browser, including Youtube and Facebook, helping you to focus only on the information important to you.
  • Anti-Tracking - stops trackers’ ability to collect your personal data, replacing it with random values and anonymizing your identity for data brokers. If you see a need to unblock individual trackers, we developed this option. The reasons are up to you!
  • Never-Consent - automatically removes intrusive cookie popups and expresses dissent to online tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your privacy advocate towards content providers while using Edge.

Ghostery delivers the online privacy protection our users have come to know and love while minimising the need for customisation and maintenance.

As Ghostery is more than an ad-blocker, it comes with exceptional additional features, not found in any other ad-blocking extension:

  • Trackers information on any website your visit, informing you about the number of trackers, their type, and the company operating them.
  • Trackers Preview on search engine result pages - displaying tracker information even before you visit a page. You can safely make the choice to visit it, as Ghostery will stop trackers expecting you on the landing page.
  • WhoTracks.Me - Owning and operating the largest database of trackers allows Ghostery to update tracker information fast and reliably for all users.
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A browser extension to display the page's server flag in the toolbar area indicating the current webserver's physical location. This is done by comparing the IP range with an offline database from MaxMind's GeoLite (there is no server interaction to get the info). Knowing the server location adds an extra layer of awareness to your browsing and is useful to indicate the native languages and legal jurisdictions that may apply. Additional information about Geolocation or Whois info can be obtained via the left- and right-click on the action icon.

Features:

  1. This is an open-source project (https://github.com/andy-portmen/country-flags/issues)
  2. Identifies IP4, IP6, and private IP addresses
  3. It is now possible to use the native DNS resolver if a user is under a SOCKS proxy (disabled by default; requires native integration)
  4. Offline database updates once per 7 days using the window.caches API
  5. Supports running a custom command when an IP is resolved; This command accepts [ip], [host], [curl], [enurl] and [url] keywords
  6. Open requested service optionally in the background and/or adjacent to the current tab.

Available tools in the right-click menu (only six services are visible in the main menu):

  1. SSL Checker: Check SSL certificate
  2. Traceroute: Display the route and transit delays of packets
  3. Ping: Test the reachability of this IP address
  4. TinyURL: Shorten the URL using TinyURL.com
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