When comparing Ghostery vs AdBlock, the Slant community recommends Ghostery for most people. In the question“What are the best Chrome add-ons?” Ghostery is ranked 27th while AdBlock is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Ghostery is:
As a side-effect of stopping trackers, Ghostery also disables many annoying advertisements, and with less of a performance hit than the various AdBlocks (especially when using both).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Blocks many ads
As a side-effect of stopping trackers, Ghostery also disables many annoying advertisements, and with less of a performance hit than the various AdBlocks (especially when using both).
Pro Prevents you from getting tracked
Pro Blocks a wide selection of annoying ads
AdBlock blocks various kinds of ads found on all websites such as video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, flashy banners, pop-ups, pop-unders etc.
Cons
Con Sells user data
Helps advertisers by selling user data. Though this can be turned off.
Con Acceptable ads turn on by default
Acceptable ads is an ad that follow the guidelines of the set acceptable advertising rules such as ads must be labelled "ads", no pop-outs allowed, no auto-plays, no animations, does not block main content etc. However, users can turn off this feature by going to settings and then unchecking "allow acceptable ads".