This leaves behind the reference to Ghostery in "Manage Add Ins" but at least the plug ins aren’t loading any more so they won’t slow down your browser.
Login and go to c:\program files (x86)\GhosteryIEplugin.Close Internet Explorer & shutdown your computer.Right click on “Ghostery BHO” & select ‘Disable’.Right click on “Ghostery” & select ‘Disable’.It basically comes down to following this rather sloppy process: This list evolves and expands as time goes by and your browser automatically pulls in the new list to block these service’s cookies & trackers.
The alternative is to use IE9’s Tracking Protection which would allow you to ‘subscribe’ to a list of services to block – by default. IE would still load the plug in, the registry entries for the plug in would remain, etc. On several systems, simply using “CONTROL PANEL – PROGRAMS & FEATURES –> GHOSTERY ” wouldn’t remove the plug in. Worse yet, in many cases Ghostery became very difficult to remove from your system. I found that pages could take 2x-3x as long to bring up as Ghostery would rifle through the Javascript to produce a summary of what services were in use. The problem was, Ghostery could REALLY slow down your browser. Ghostery would tell you what tracking service was being used and allow you to specifically BLOCK that tracking service. These tracking services will aggregate that you are a 35 year old Male from Los Angeles, CA – and continue to learn more about you depending on what other sites you visit using the same tracking service. If you go to you might enter your birthdate to be allowed to access certain areas. So if you visit Galpin Toyota’s web site, you might enter your zip code. The simple explanation is that it monitors the Javascript on each web site for known tracking cookies & techniques & blocks them if you wish.įor example, whenever you go to a web site using tracking services like “Doubleclick” or “Google AdSense”, your actions and details are transmitted to a central site, completely separately from the web site you’re visiting. Basically, it displays what “tracking” services are being used on you whenever you visit a web site. A while back I was trying a browser add-in for Internet Explorer 9.0 called “Ghostery”.
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