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Ghostery AdBlocker for Privacy

Fast, private, and ad-free browsing you can trust!

#10 in Privacy & Security
View in Chrome Web Store
★ 4.65 (19K) 2M users Alive & well v10.5.51 by Ghostery

What users praise

  • The Ghostery ad-and-tracker blocker from a renowned privacy team, 2M users
  • "Install and forget", easy to learn; blocks YouTube ads too
  • Flexible configuration; used for years

What users complain about

  • Periodically breaks on Facebook (Marketplace ads return)
  • Sometimes interferes with YouTube playback — has to be toggled off
  • Weaker on new-tab popups than on embedded ads

Compiled from real Chrome Web Store reviews. We only report what users actually wrote — no summaries were invented.

Score breakdown

Reliability0.99
Satisfaction0.82
Usefulness0.70
Safety0.00
Trust0.80
Substance0.85

Strongest: reliability. Weak spot: safety.

Based on 19K reviews · computed Jul 18, 2026. Bars show only what we could actually measure.

What we checked

50recent reviews read
MV3manifest version
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Jul 10, 2026last updated

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