The internet runs on advertising, and that includes search engines. Google brought in $26 billion of search revenue in the most recent quarter alone. Yes, billion. As that business has grown, it’s ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to ...

At the beginning of June, Microsoft announced that it would enable ‘Do Not Track’ by default in its forthcoming Internet Explorer 10. The controversial decision immediately sparked vehement uproar ...

Most ad blockers—and there are so, so many of them now—operate roughly the same way, comparing the scripts they encounter on a given site to their whitelist and block list letting the former run and ...

The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand and block all the ways that advertisers were tracking them. Since then, ...

Ghostery believes this version is both easier to understand for casual users and more feature-rich for power users. “We found that Ghostery had tons of passionate users among tech-savvy users, but we ...

Mozilla-backed Cliqz, a German startup building an anti-tracking browser with a built-in private search feature powered by aggregated usage of its products, is acquiring the consumer assets of ...

You’d like to be able to browse the web with some measure of privacy. That’s not an easy task with the major browsers. Instead, you can turn to a lesser known but ...

(in)Secure is a weekly column that dives into the rapidly escalating topic of cybersecurity. Trackers are something that most internet users tolerate, though few have much fondness for. At a time when ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ghostery, the web user's window into the invisible web, has become the standard for ordinary web users to detect tracking beacons (aka web bugs), with more than 2 million ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - January 26, 2015) - Ghostery®, a leader in digital privacy and transparency, today announced its free browser plug-in is now compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer.