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Ghostery
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 16 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Link loads only when blocker is off, with no explanation givenUnreviewed
20122026- Regular clicks on links fail with Ghostery enabled; only new tab works2023-07-24
- Link loads only when Ghostery is off; blocked page gives no explanation2015-10-14
- Clicking the Play Store link does nothing because Ghostery silently blocks it2014-07-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Regular clicks on links fail with Ghostery enabled; only new tab works2023-07-24
- Keeps showing annoying popups that pull attention away2017-10-26
- MSDN pages show a blank screen for about five seconds before content appears2016-03-10
- Link loads only when Ghostery is off; blocked page gives no explanation2015-10-14
- Confusing UI buries essential options in the share menu, unrelated to sharing2015-07-24
- Update popups confuse non-technical users, causing them to call for help2015-07-14
- Clicking the Play Store link does nothing because Ghostery silently blocks it2014-07-21
- Blocks bank pages silently, so users wrongly suspect the bank's website is broken2014-05-28
- Shows obnoxious, useless notifications by default that the user must turn off2014-02-17
- User had to dig through configuration to find a feature expected active by default2013-12-17
- Ad blockers break some websites whose JavaScript expects tracking code to load2013-12-11
- Unexpected play button must be clicked before viewing the article2013-09-12
- Blocking cookies breaks videos and whole pages from loading2013-07-03
- Hard to selectively enable trackers; list needs manual scrolling in a tiny window2013-06-18
- Opting out requires finding non-obvious controls that differ by browser2013-04-29
- Ghostery's opt-out GUI is less than intuitive to use2012-11-24
- Breaks websites so user must spend long time tracking down the cause2012-02-25