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Trackers Preview on search engine results page
- Search engines reveal more than your queries. Every search can expose your interests and influence the results and ads you see.
- Preview trackers before you visit. Ghostery shows how tracker-heavy a website is directly on the search results page, helping you make more informed choices.
- Protect your clicks, not just your browsing. Ghostery removes tracking from search-result clicks and contributes anonymous data to WhoTracks.Me to improve tracker transparency for everyone.
Search engines play a key role in online tracking. Companies knowing our search queries, will quickly learn how individual decisions are made and use that knowledge to influence further.
There is no such thing as universal, unbiased search when this situation occurs, and no possibility for true privacy.
Why Search Results Matter for Your Privacy
While the choice of search engines is an individual decision, Ghostery aims to increase awareness among users that search engines are one of the main trackers out there.
See Website Trackers Before You Click
The new Trackers Preview wheel we implemented on search engine results pages let’s you catch sight of a tracker heavily-loaded website before you visit, adding even more transparency to the web.
How Ghostery Protects Your Searches
Ghostery further prevents non-private search engines from tracking your clicks. That information entirely scrubbed off by any user data is then reported to WhoTracks.Me, improving the privacy and protection we offer to all our users.
Starting with Ghostery 8.6.1 the Trackers Preview was enabled by default but can be easily disabled in Ghostery Settings.
