How do I stop the Ghostery popup to show up?

[rfalanga]

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Description

Every time I open my browser The Ghostery popup window comes up, in the way. No matter how many times I, "Check out the sweet new features and defect fixes in this release" it never stops bothering me every time I open the browser!!!

Expected Behavior

I expect that once I've visited the link to check out the new features and defect fixes, that it will not pop up again.

Actual Behavior

That pop up comes up again and again and again and again and again and again and again ....

Steps to Reproduce

1. Opening my browser, there is it in my face, always, every time

Versions

• Browser: Chromium version of MS Edge
• OS: Windows 10 Professional
• Node: (not sure)
• NPM: (not sure)

[christophertino]

Are you getting a new browser tab opening at launch or is it a little window in the top-right corner? Send over a screenshot if you can.

If it's the latter, try going into Ghostery settings > Notifications > turn off the first four options.

[rfalanga]

Its in the upper right corner. Its not what I would call small. [cid:image001.png@01D5F0C5.681ECC10] I was just searching, but it doesn’t matter if I search, or go to some link I’ve saved or one I’ve sent to myself, it is there, in the upper right all the time. I’ve really come to hate it and am an inch away from uninstalling the Ghostry add-in. What’s the point of an add-in that’s supposed to help reduce intrusions, etc., if it throws itself at me screaming LOOK AT ME OR ELSE!!!!! Rod From: Christopher Tino <notifications@github.com> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2020 7:47 AM To: ghostery/ghostery-extension <ghostery-extension@noreply.github.com> Cc: Rod Falanga <rodf@outlook.com>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [ghostery/ghostery-extension] How do I stop the Ghostery popup to show up? (#500) Are you getting a new browser tab opening at launch or is it a little window in the top-right corner? Send over a screenshot if you can. If it's the latter, try going into Ghostery settings > Notifications > turn off the first four options. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fghostery%2Fghostery-extension%2Fissues%2F500%3Femail_source%3Dnotifications%26email_token%3DAC2SS3CJIDTGSI7QP7KRUP3RFPBIBA5CNFSM4K2YX2IKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOENPSJPI%23issuecomment-593437885&data=02%7C01%7C%7C334cdd6be56a4230957b08d7beb8a204%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637187572502214540&sdata=g3hLW48ggu2IzFs3zAlPppmSzwbQc1WrbFEsMLhXYjo%3D&reserved=0>, or unsubscribe<https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnotifications%2Funsubscribe-auth%2FAC2SS3H4G6G5DXHAFYOKSF3RFPBIBANCNFSM4K2YX2IA&data=02%7C01%7C%7C334cdd6be56a4230957b08d7beb8a204%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637187572502214540&sdata=G5qsyLVlVlHGj9lQRwL4q7YcN%2FYjp2Bdiw9EeLMwqPE%3D&reserved=0>.

[christophertino]

Yea that's definitely not intended behavior. Our next release (v8.4.7) cleans things up for the new Chromium Edge (#492). Can you try turning off notifications as I mentioned previously (Ghostery settings > Notifications > turn off the first four options) to see if that helps temporarily?

[christophertino]

Our Edge release was approved today. Could you update and let me know if this resolves the issue?

[rfalanga]

How do I update the Edge release? I thought that might happen automatically, but if I'm wrong I'd be happy to give it a try.

[christophertino]

If you go to edge://extensions, then at the bottom left turn on Developer Mode. On the top-right you should now see an Update icon. Ghostery should be at v8.4.7.

[rfalanga]

Thank you, @christophertino for your response. I didn't know about being able to go into Developer Mode. Thanks for that! After going into Developer Mode I discovered that I am running Ghostery v8.4.7

[christophertino]

Glad you were able to get the update. Did it fix the pop-up issue?

[rfalanga]

No.

[christophertino]

In the popup window, what text are you seeing displayed?

[rfalanga]

[BennoG]

version 8.5.0 same popup as above every time I start chrome.

Also clear the settings with arrows (that should prevent this) are not saved after close and reopen chrome.

[BennoG]

For some reason the popup stopped after a couple of day's still at version 8.5.0 so there was no update involved.