Ghostery just got annoying :-(

[cellio]

Dear LJ brain trust,

I use the Ghostery browser extension to notify me of (and disable until approved) third-party trackers on web sites, because I don't really want random sites snooping on my browsing habits. I just restarted Firefox, picking up some updates in the process, and the notifier thingie has gotten super-annoying and hard to dismiss. I looked at the configuration options and set it for the shortest period of time before (supposedly) auto-dismissing, five seconds, but it's still taking more than that. And it's bigger and more intrusive than it was, on every single site regardless of trust settings:



I want big and intrusive on untrusted sites, or if something new has shown up, but for sites I've said I trust, where nothing special is happening, I want it to just shut up already.

Is anybody else seeing this? If so, do you know how to fix it or revert, or are my choices to live with it or disable the extension entirely?

Is Ghostery actually still useful? Are there better tools for this?

Comments

[dsrtao]

uBlock Origin and Self-Destructing Cookies has replaced just about every other privacy and sanity preservation system for me on Firefox. Ghostery is annoying and over thinks it: Self-Destructing Cookies makes your default cookie policy "accept until a few seconds after I close this tab, then delete."

[cellio]

"Accept until a few seconds after I close this tab" sounds spot-on -- thanks for the tip!