Ghostery Privacy Browser

A Google user

I have to change my view on this browser. It crashes all the time and the new update made recently has made it probably the slowest browser. The UI sucks. The progress bar is not visible as it blends with titlebar color. It appears to be frozen. My old review: This is awesome lightning speed browser that removes all tracking and clutters on websites. What a relief!! It sure saves my lifetime by eliminating frustration of working with those slow but popular brand named browsers 😀

A Google user

A person doesn't install Ghostery because they want to be hip or trendy. They do it because they want to keep things simple and browse in peace. It seems in the September update much of that is now broken. The blue in the top bar hurts my eyes and many of the menus feel wrong. At the very least do away with the color from the top bar and go with greyscale so that it doesn't clash so badly with 90%+ of the web. Considering the lack of good alternatives, I guess I've switched to the duck duck go browser for now. I haven't been able to stand the way Firefox likes to organize things or play with their visual themes, so I simply avoid using it except when someone tells me there's a Firefox-specific bug in something at work. I certainly didn't want it on my phone. I know the old Ghostery had some issues with certain type of sites and downloads, but I accepted that as the price for a browser that bucked the trend to deliver a simple, clean web browsing experience. After all, I could always fall back to Chrome for the few things I absolutely needed to get to work and would simply copy/paste the URL in most cases avoiding searching and browsing in Chrome.

A Google user

Update: I take it back. This app has become completely unusable. It crashes non-stop *and* it's not providing the same level of privacy that it used to. [With the new version I have problems with pages jumping as they load, lots of advertising. Still #1 for privacy, though. One thing I'd kill for: a way to export my bookmarks list so that I won't lose 3 years of bookmarks when my phone dies.]

A Google user

Used to be a fast, light weight browser, but now is extremely slow, even with the"performance fixes" from the end of September. What it now excels at is turning a high speed connection into a dial-up experience from 1995. ---------------------- OK - just updated again with the October 2018 performance fixes. I'll let you know how it goes.... if it ever finishes loading a page. Go ahead, grab some popcorn.. we'll be here a while. #performancefail

A Google user

Ghostery was my go to browser for my phone, but the last update has completely changed it. It is ridiculously slow to load pages now, to the point that my phones stock browser is faster to use, plus since the update my phone seems to be running a lot slower than normal, and my battery is dropping faster than it ever has. It's looking like I'll have to switch to something else and see if they fix what's gone wrong.

Joey is probably sleeping

Great alternative (additional) browser. I appreciate the privacy & ad-blocking, etc. it provides. I've had it for years & have been v happy with it. In an age in which user data is being collected (often willingly! Or forcibly, in exchange for the use of an app) to an unprecedented extent, it's becoming more & more important to maintain some semblance of privacy & control over what data one chooses to share (for a growing number, that's as little as possible). Ghostery contributes to that cause

A Google user

This has been my "go to" browser for several years. Unfortunately, the latest update for it (received 03 October 2018) is causing problems for me. The browser is extremely slow and glitches, and every time I use it, my Android UI stops working. :( I don't mean this as a complaint; rather, I hope it will provide feedback and information for the developers.

A Google user

The latest set of updates ruined everything that was good about this app. Every new feature is either pointless, doesn't work or is exactly what i was trying to avoid by using this app in the first place. It is no longer a small, simple browser. It is now bloated. It randomly crashes and crashes other running apps. You took a good thing and ruined it.

A Google user

This has been my browser of choice for a long time. This latest update has made it unuseable. It takes forever to load a page and then maybe only the title will show up. I have changed no settings. Nothing works in the Settings menu. Nothing will open. Very disappointed. Update : it is now working but I had to reinstall it and lost all of my bookmarks and open tabs. Don't like the new "look" either, sorry. It was perfect before it was changed. Still very disappointed. I had some important (to me) bookmarks on there that I may never find again because I don't know where to look. 😢

A Google user

And just like that... It started ok, but this crashes or locks up a lot. Sometimes have to restart phone. Normally, it blocked yahoo ads fine, but then started letting in the sponsored ads...hate them. Doesn't let you specify a home page, it should. A good ad blocker will block all the yahoo ads, and this did, but no longer., and that is a fail.