ghostery-extension

• Better error reporting

• Fixed: Initialization could not finish which will prevent the extension from saving settings (#792)
• Improve: Critical errors reporting (#791)
• Improve: Vietnamese translations - thanks to @tachibana-shin (#773)

8.7.1

• Fixed: Memory leak in Chromium based browsers (#764)
• Update: adblocker engine update (#765)
• Improve: registration forms moved to ghostery.com (#769)

• Fixed: In a new installation, the AdBlocking engine started with the wrong block mode (#752)
• Free up space in chrome.storage.local by deleting obsolete keys (#750)

• Add disable button on trackers preview iframe (#746)

Features:

• Settings: option to disable Trackers Preview on search results (#742)

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• WhoTrackMe tracker wheel shown on the the Google search page (#738)
• Smart Blocking: Disable the exception for first-party tracking, allowing Ghostery to block Google Beacons (#730)
• Improved the logic to decide whether to block new trackers (#732)
• Fixes site breakage related to the Tracker-Tally and changed it to be opt-in (#727)
• Fix for WebAssembly in Chrome and Edge (#739)
• Updated translations (#731)

8.5.9

GHOSTERY 8.5.8 (July 1, 2021)

• Fixes panel header alignment in Chrome (#713)
• Adds cross-extension messaging for Ghostery Search (#712)

GHOSTERY 8.5.7 (June 24, 2021)

• Remove promo modals for Insights and Midnight (#706)
• Allow host name fuzzy matching for Compatibility URLs (#680)
• Add subscription status to CMP fetch URL (#694)
• Avoid possible race condition in ABTest & CMP on Dawn (#687)
• Updates to intro hub (#711, #710, #708)

GHOSTERY 8.5.5 (February 25, 2021)

• Integrate new v4 tracker databases (#616)
• Pull tracker meta data from whotracks.me (#616)
• Migrate from Cliqz browser-core to ghostery-common (#644)
• Allow user to disable automatic updates for Anti-Tracking and Ad-Blocker (#646, #561)
• New on-boarding hub for Ghostery Browser (#665)

See the complete GitHub milestone

GHOSTERY 8.5.4 (November 20, 2020)

• Adds support for Ghostery Browser (#621, #622)
• Remove Ghostery Rewards (#630)
• Updated feature names (#613, #626, #627)
• Shortened metrics uninstall URL (#615)
• Fixes bug with initial account settings sync (#629)
• Bug fixes (#617, #624, #625, #628)
• Updated translations

See the complete GitHub milestone

GHOSTERY 8.5.3 (October 8, 2020)

• Updated Firefox Android extension panel UI and mobile optimizations (#587)
• New console debugging interface for user troubleshooting (#568)
• Display error message after too many failed login attempts (#577)
• Add opt-out for AB Tests (#608)
• Added product id parameter to extension pings (#574)
• Detect Ghostery Desktop Browser (#602)
• Remove broken page pings (#609)
• On-boarding AB Tests (#603)
• Updated translations

GHOSTERY 8.5.2 (July 30, 2020)

• Fixes bug where Ghostery icon could be grayed out on restricted sites (#564)
• Clean up lint suppression rules. Remove React UNSAFE events. (#559, #566)
• Fixes bug where themes were not unlocked on upgrade (#555)
• Add upgrade promotion to Intro Hub (#551)
• Adds options for yearly subscription plans (#567)
• Rate limit password reset attempts (#548)
• Add A/B testing support to promo modals (#583)
• Updates to account creation panel messaging (#541)
• Slimmer Human Web modules for Android browsers (#569)
• Remove Spring promo modal (#571)
• Search for missing language tokens (#563)
• Updated campaign metrics (#576)
• Update dependencies
• Bump minimum versions for Firefox, Chrome and Opera

See complete 8.5.2 milestone.

GHOSTERY 8.5.0 (May 7, 2020)

• New Spring themes for Plus subscribers (#525)
• New settings option to select Ad-Blocker lists (#527)
• Add password reset link to Intro Hub (#507)
• Updated in-app promo modals (#509)
• Fixes bug in site-specific tracker white-listing (#522, Fixes #519)
• Improved Click2Play Script Injection (#528)
• Standardize all Ghostery staging and production global URLs (#511)
• Updated Rewards UI (#521)
• Update legacy unit tests (#526)
• Updated translations

GHOSTERY 8.5.1 (June 1, 2020)

• Unlock Plus features for Ghostery Midnight users (#546)
• Update Ghostery Plus feature list in subscription panel (#540)
• Remove hard-coded subscription pricing (#547)

GHOSTERY 8.4.9 (April 9, 2020)

• Better handling of semantic version comparison (#524)
• Updates to AMO build script (#524)

GHOSTERY 8.4.8 (March 30, 2020)

• Fixes issue that could intermittently cause some cookies to be reset (Fixes #514)
• Handle legacy opt-in settings for Firefox (#518)

GHOSTERY 8.4.7 (March 16, 2020)

• Migrate to the new Chromium-based Edge browser (#492)
• Disable Purplebox on Firefox Android (#494)
• Allow white-listing of wildcard domains (#501)
• Allow site-specific white-listing of Unknown Trackers caught by Ad-Blocker (#503)
• Fixes issue when adding localhost to Trusted Sites with port value (Fixes #470)
• Add locale-appropriate formatting to historical stats numbers (#498)
• Remove email opt-in from account creation in panel and hub (#495)
• More aggressive cookie-blocking via Anti-Tracking (#490)