Ghostery AdBlocker for Privacy
Ghostery AdBlocker for Privacy has 975,555 installs (+7.3% in 30 days), rated 4.6 from 502 ratings, #59 of 9,887 in Productivity.
Also in the last two weeksv10.6.8 on 14 Oct
Description
Fast, private, and ad-free browsing you can trust!
Reviews Reviews with text are a subset of all ratings.
4.6 average from 502 ratings.
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★★★★★ Nate · 5 Oct 20266 out of 5 stars. Have been using for years.
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★★★★★ Jonathan · 4 Oct 2026I really like Zap mode! I can block ads on a few specific sites where the ads are annoying / malicious and still allow ads on all of the other sites I visit. I allow ads because I want to support the website owner / content creator / publisher. Other ad blocker extensions that I have used work the opposite way; they block ads on all sites by default and force you to whitelist the sites where ads should be allowed. Thank you Ghostery for understanding that people want choice, and thank you for supporting Edge.
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★★★★★ Janice L · 7 Sep 2026Best blocker out there. i haven't been annoyed since I installed it on my desktop!
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★★★★★ Natalie · 12 Aug 2026I am genuinely so excited about this, I wanted to be able to browse Pinterest without having an ad in-between every single pin, and I literally clapped for joy after downloading this and opening Pinterest to see not a single ad. The fact that it's free is the cherry on top! Super easy to install as well.
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★★★★★ paul · 9 Aug 2026seems to be working well, not only to block youtube ads but also during web surfing.. uses very low resources and does not slow down browsing like other blockers do
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★★★★★ Steve · 30 Jul 2026This is an exceptional product. It works really well and unbelievably. It's free. I got sick and tired of people tracking me and ads coming up; this works miracles
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★★★★★ D'Angelo · 21 Jul 2026Works awesome! The ad free experience is great! As long as I don't get a virus..
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★★★★★ Soma · 16 Jul 2026works wonderful! thanks!!
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★★★★★ Robert · 18 Jun 2026I think this is a great product and works well
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★★★★★ Sergio · 29 May 2026A must have.
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Growth change in installs
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 1 days |
| week | +66,455 | +7.3% | +66,455 | 11.2 days |
| month | +66,455 | +7.3% | +66,455 | 41 days |
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
How these figures are measured
Change in installs, as observed between the two crawls named in "measured over", not scaled to the window: this store refreshes its install counts only occasionally, so one refresh lands in every window at once and these figures usually read 0 in between - the weekly change in ratings under Rating above is the better signal here. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
Permissions Manifest V3 · 13 required · 1 optional
- Reads and changes your data on all websites
- Read and change your cookies, which can include login sessions
- Run user scripts - code that did not ship with the extension - on the pages you visit
- See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
- If you allow it: delete your browsing data, such as history, cookies and downloads
Ad blockers, password managers and VPNs need this kind of access to do their job. This describes what the extension can reach, not how it behaves.
Reads and changes your data on all websites ⚠ sensitive
- activeTab See the page you're currently viewing, only when you click the extension
- alarms Schedule its code to run at a later time
- contextMenus Add items to your right-click menu
- cookies ⚠ sensitive Read and change your cookies, which can include login sessions
- declarativeNetRequest Block or modify web requests using a predefined rule set
- declarativeNetRequestFeedback See which of your web requests its blocking rules matched
- offscreen Run a hidden page to do background work, such as playing audio or reading documents
- scripting Run scripts on web pages you visit
- storage Save its own settings and data locally
- tabs See your open tabs and the pages you're on
- userScripts ⚠ sensitive Run user scripts - code that did not ship with the extension - on the pages you visit
- webNavigation See what pages you navigate to and when
- webRequest ⚠ sensitive See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
Optional permissions
- browsingData ⚠ sensitive Delete your browsing data, such as history, cookies and downloads
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