Please, if someone from forbes.com is reading this, please disable the full page ad for readers coming via HN. Ghostery counts 15 different types of trackers, and there are many ads on the page itself.
http://adage.com/article/digital/real-money-online-advertisi...
These kind of untargeted display ads are amongst the lowest ROI ads online, but advertisers still seem all too happy to pony up vast sums for them. They call it "branding", I think.
The Internet will not change its business model to please you. It's you who will need to change your behavior.
I surf very little on my iPhone, a bit on my iPad, almost all on my Macbook. Why? Because of screen area. I love being able to crank the font size up to 18 points and still be able to see a decent amount of screen real estate.
Just something to look forward to as you get older. :)
Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon. http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to...
I think this is more heat than light. The "Ghost Rank" functionality, whereby anonymous usage data is uploaded to Evidon is opt-in with recent versions of Ghostery, and they have to pay for the engineers that created the tool and keep it up to date somehow...
And for similar reasons I dropped AdBlock when they decided to let companies pay to be unblocked.
https://www.requestpolicy.com/
Downside? You have to be more involved by manually whitelisting the necessary sites like CDNs. I've been using it for years and it doesn't bother me, although I'd say 5% of the time I'll just give up rather than work through a list of 10+ cross-site references.