Adblock plus already handles Ads. Ghostery is for TRACKING. Your focus here is misguided. The whole point about Ghostery is: they want to collect data about the

Adblock plus already handles Ads. Ghostery is for TRACKING. Your focus here is misguided. The whole point about Ghostery is: they want to collect data about the whole industry, which industry people want. So they design Ghostery to collect that data and have an opt-in anonymous feedback to them. You can see that they are not trying to block the ads because the ability to block new trackers by default is absent from the setup wizard. You have to go to the advanced settings via the separate plugin settings to get that. Again, Ghostery doesn't collect your personal browsing history unless you opt-in. The fact that it is proprietary means we can't absolutely verify this, which is a concern. But assuming it is as they say, it is much less an issue than you make it out to be. And again TRACKING is a different beast than what the form of the ad we see is.