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Their Safari extension just stopped working. They reposted it under a new App Store entry. 🤷‍♂️🙄

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/adblocker-safari-app-migration

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[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It would appear that this is indeed the same ghostery that sold its users out to the highest bidder.

I recommend using AdGuard which is free and doesn’t have such serious privacy issues:

also there’s no need to pay, the free tier is more than sufficient

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

yup it was founded in Moscow and they moved their headquarters to Cyprus. They’ve been open and honest about the whole process.