sammacbeth / ghostery-extension

Ghostery Browser Extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Edge

     

Ghostery helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. This is the unified code repository for the Ghostery browser extensions in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge.

Downloads

Firefox – Download    

Chrome – Download    

Cliqz – Download

Opera – Download

Edge – Download

Installation

# Install local npm packages
$ npm install

Building

# Build all sources
$ npm run build.dev

# Build for production
$ npm run build.prod

# Build and watch for changes
$ npm run build.watch

Enable Debugging / Logging

// In manifest.json set
"debug": true,
"log": true,

Testing and Linting

# Run unit tests
$ npm run test.unit

# Run linter over the ./app and ./src folders
$ npm run lint

# Lint a specific file
$ npm run lint.raw -- src/utils/matcher.js

Build Docs

# Build JSDoc files to ./docs
$ npm run docs

Cliqz Source Code

Ghostery implements the following open-source products from Cliqz

Human Web

• How it works
• GitHub

Anti-Tracking

• How it works
• GitHub

Ad Blocker

• GitHub

Compatibility

• Firefox: 52+
• Firefox Android: 55+
• Chrome: 49+
• Opera: 36+
• Edge: 34.14291+

Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING and CODE OF CONDUCT

Links

• Website
• Support
• Twitter (@ghostery)
• Facebook
• Privacy Policy

Ghostery Team

Ghostery relies on contributions from lots of talented people. Our core development team looks like this:

Christopher Tino	José María Signanini	Serge Zarembsky	Patrick Lawler	Caleb Richelson	Aziz Aithsaine

See the full montage of uncommonly attractive Ghosterians/Cliqzers here.

License

MPL-2.0 Copyright 2018 Ghostery, Inc. All rights reserved.

See LICENSE

Tracker Databases

The databases folder contains JSON skeletons to show the schema expected by the extension pattern matcher. See the Database README for more information. Ghostery's production tracker databases have been purposely excluded from this project, as they remain proprietary to Ghostery, Inc. Which leads us to this grim, yet obligatory...

Copyright Notice

The proprietary databases are the intellectual property of Ghostery, Inc. and are protected by copyright and other applicable laws. All rights to them are expressly reserved by Ghostery, Inc. You may not use these databases or any portion thereof for any purpose that is not expressly granted in writing by Ghostery, Inc. All inquires should be sent to [e-mail]. Ghostery, Inc. retains the sole discretion in determining whether or not to grant permission to use the databases. Unauthorized use of the databases, or any portion of them, will cause irreparable harm to Ghostery, Inc. and may result in legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages and an injunction against you, including the payment of legal fees and costs.