How do I get rid of Ghostery - or should I? Is it a Firefox thing?

[UTUSN]

So long as it was just an icon on the toolbar, it was ignorable. But now it started popping up a "Trackers" window, plus leaving a number in a circle on top of my current window.

I can't find it in the list of programs (to be uninstalled) or in the Apps. At least, how do I get rid of the number-in-the-purple-circle on top of my Window?!1

[Sentath]

1. It was a tracker blocker

It's become a bit more corporate and complicated since then.

If you want it to go away (or change it's settings) go to the 3line menu in the upper right and select the puzzle piece for AddOns.

[UTUSN]

2. tyvm. UPDATE: Wow, I just Removed it per your tip! n/t

Last edited Fri Jul 8, 2016, 04:12 PM - Edit history (1)

[Denzil_DC]

3. Anybody else with this issue

who wants to keep Ghostery needs to set its options: https://extension.ghostery.com/en/settings

There's a checkbox there for "Show the purple box tracker list in the corner of my browser".

It's seamless and unobtrusive the way I have it set up: just a very small Ghostery icon on the Navigation Toolbar that shows how many trackers it's blocking on a particular page. If I click on it, I can access the details and tweak what's going on.

[UTUSN]

4. sounds like you're making the case to keep it

Is this cookies? I'm deleting those individually

[Denzil_DC]

5. I wouldn't want to be without Ghostery myself.

I'd stopped visiting a bunch of sites because they took too long to load or would hang. Now they're usable again.

This explains what Ghostery does: https://www.ghostery.com/why-ghostery/for-individuals/

[UTUSN]

6. Really? Well, I appreciate your more-informed info Thanks

[bananas]

7. I also recommend keeping it. nt