While it may not apply when the issue is a flaw in certain Ghostery versions, it's probably still worthwhile to point out (perhaps again) the option to whitelist certain web addresses in Ghostery's settings, rather than turning the extension off completely. Obviously, you'd need to know which sites qualify for whitelisting, but if you do*, you may retain the extension's benefits for other sites. Also be aware of the possibility that problems may increase in frequency when blocking more trackers.

*) Example: after changing Ghostery's blocking options, I noticed that certain Google (sites.google.com) and Macworld (macworld.com) pages no longer worked as expected. Since they displayed OK with Ghostery turned off, I added the affected domains to the whitelist with the same result. IIRC, Artie had similar experiences.


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