Posts by Larry Kokoszka
Site-Based Silos Enhance Privacy Against Nosy Web Sites
Today we are releasing a new feature called Silos. Silos help you enhance your privacy by isolating specific web sites to their own separate and “siloed” Identities. For example, if you are browsing the web in one Identity and don’t want Facebook to be aware of the other tabs in that Identity, you can add…
Read MoreChanges to Feature Names
Today’s release introduces some name changes to the various types of tabs in the browser. These changes can be seen in the browser Sidebar, in context menus and of course in our support documentation. In short, we’ve renamed ‘Sessions’ – they are now called ‘Temporary Identities’. Where we use the term ‘Permanent Identities’ or just…
Read MorePrivate Data Sync for Workspaces, Identities, Tabs, Proxies and Cookies Among 2.1.1.16 Release Improvements
Today we are releasing version 2.1.1.16 with a lot of improvements that we think you will love! The biggest improvements are to our Private Data Sync (PDS) tools. In case you missed it, we released initial versions of PDS earlier this year with limiting data types able to be synced to a data storage service (like Dropbox,…
Read MorePrivate Data Sync
Today we are releasing an expanded version of Private Data Sync to include the ability to sync Identities. Still in the experimental stage, this feature expands on the bookmarks sync that we released in April. Sync has been our most requested feature but it took some time to design the solution because, quite frankly, we…
Read MoreVersion 2.1.1.11 Update Brings Sync and Identity Manager Improvements
Version 2.1.1.11 was released today and has one major new feature: Private Data Sync and many improvements including better ways to manage your Identities. Private Data Sync is a new experimental feature that allows you to store data from your browser to a storage location of your choosing (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) and use that…
Read MoreProtected: WordCamp Denver Guest Post
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Read MoreWhy You Need to Dump Your Current Browser
Do you ever feel like your browser is working against you? Whether it’s constantly having to log in and out or having so many tabs open that you can’t even tell which is which, can mean it’s a real struggle to get the browser to do what you want it to. It takes 23 minutes…
Read MorePrivacy Features Released in Version 2.0.2.0
The term, “20-20” usually refers to perfect vision. But version 2.0.2.0 of Ghost Browser ironically means the opposite. From this version on, we’ve implemented some advanced privacy features that are intended to cloud the vision of people that might be trying to track you. Cookies and IP addresses have been used to track your usage…
Read MoreIntroducing Identity Manager
Today we are releasing the beta version of a feature called Identities. Identities are an evolution of Sessions and will live along side them. While Sessions are not going anywhere, we think that most users will find Identities to be their new ‘go to’ for managing multiple accounts. How to Use It To get started…
Read MoreFont Fingerprinting
You can be identified through various methods that use the fonts in your browser to create a unique identity or fingerprint. This allows you to be tracked over time in the same browser. One method is similar to Canvas fingerprinting where a web site will render a font in your browser then use the rendering…
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