Ghostery is a kind of fallacy. Whenever I see talk on the web about tracking and privacy, someone jumps in with "Just use Ghostery!". It's almost cult-like.

Ghostery is a kind of fallacy. Whenever I see talk on the web about tracking and privacy, someone jumps in with "Just use Ghostery!". It's almost cult-like. If you use it or think you might, consider: Ghostery is closed-source; it's in bed with advertisers; it reports to the mothership; and its blocking is based on criteria set by someone other than the user. Oh, and in case that's not enough, it breaks pages as described. The better alternative in my opinion is Request Policy. It simply prevents requests to third-party domains by default, and lets the user whitelist selectively, each permission being either for the session or persistent, your choice. Or you can reconfigure it as a blacklist. And it's open source and non-commercial. (But please support the dev, if you like it.) IMHO this functionality should be a default part of a browser in the first place. Now I will shut up before I start ranting about how web developers give away their site's data, and compromise user privacy by throwing in unlimited numbers of third-party requests for functionality they could easily source from own-domain.