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I'm not too surprised to read this story. Ghostery seems to have redone their UI recently and it looks like one of those form-over-function redesigns that happ
by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not too surprised to read this story. Ghostery seems to have redone their UI recently and it looks like one of those form-over-function redesigns that happen when a company comes into some money, decides to spend it on looking pretty but forgets to spend any of it on usability analysis. Since it sounds like their revenue does not come from the users, making it look pretty but less useful doesn't really hurt them as long as there are no competitors.
In case anyone cares, when I say less useful I mean that the new layout makes it harder to individually enable/disable specific trackers in the cases where a tracker provides functionality necessary for the website to operate. The new layout is much more mouse intensive for anything but the trivial case of minimal trackers on a page. It's unwieldy to selectively enable trackers on sites with more than roughly 5 trackers on them because of the manual scolling-in-a-tiny-window layout and difficulty reading the list of trackers due to drawing lines through the text of their names.
- fixanoid 13y agoHi Amadou, you should really post on our support board to get understanding or where Ghostery UI is going.