How To Install Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker For Business

What is Ghostery for Enterprise?

Ghostery for Enterprise is a professional-grade ad block for businesses that unites privacy, security, and productivity in one lightweight browser extension. By stopping ads, pop-ups, cookies, malvertising, and more than a billion tracking requests per day, it keeps your company's data and employee traffic free from data harvesters while speeding up page loads. Its open-source code, reviewed by Mozilla, Apple, and Google engineers with every update - lets security teams audit everything in-house. The Ghostery add-on works with every major browser, and can be deployed in minutes via individual installs or enterprise-wide rollouts.

Beyond raw blocking power, Ghostery provides the governance large organizations need. Admins can centrally enforce policies and lock critical settings. The WhoTracks.Me dashboard reveals exactly which observed activities were blocked - inside or outside your own sites - simplifying compliance reporting. As a company wide ad block, it boosts productivity, offers flexible enterprise licensing, and provides a future-proof path for teams migrating from uBlock Origin.

Benefits of Using an Adblocker for Business

In today’s data-intensive workplace, third-party ads and trackers can drain resources, expose confidential information, and chip away at employee focus. Rolling out an ad block for business is a quick, low-overhead way to neutralize these risks and keep every browser session on task.

Key advantages:

• Stronger Data Protection: Blocks tracking scripts, beacons and malvertising that can siphon sensitive information or install malware.
• Faster Page Loads: Removes heavy ad assets, cutting bandwidth usage and shaving seconds off every page visit.
• Sharper Employee Focus: Removes pop-ups, autoplay videos, and other attention-stealers that interrupt deep work.
• Reduced Attack Surface: Eliminates thousands of third-party calls, lowering exposure to compromised ad networks.
• Lower Support Costs: Fewer ad-driven infections mean less time spent by IT cleaning devices or resetting browsers.
• Actionable telemetry: Enterprise dashboards reveal which sites and trackers were blocked, aiding security audits.
• Central policy control: Central management consoles let admins lock privacy settings and push updates company-wide.

In short, an enterprise adblocker turns the browser from a liability into a controlled, efficient workspace, protecting corporate assets while giving employees a more focused, faster and cleaner web experience.

How To Install Ghostery Enterprise Adblocker

This guide provides instructions on how to install and configure the Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker extension on Microsoft Windows using Group Policies.

First, one needs to identify the Ghostery extension id (sometimes referred as by name). By default, the Ghostery extension id is:

• firefox@ghostery.com for Firefox,
• mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij for Chrome
• fclbdkbhjlgkbpfldjodgjncejkkjcme for Edge

Installation

Official distribution

Chrome

Ghostery extension id on Chrome Web Store is mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij.

Update URL: https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx

Steps:

1. You need the Chrome ADMX (policy template) files on your domain controller or local Group Policy Editor.

2. Configure Forced-Install of the Extension

* Entry: mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx

Find detailed instructions here: https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#ExtensionInstallForcelist

Edge

Ghostery extension id on Edge Add-ons store is fclbdkbhjlgkbpfldjodgjncejkkjcme.

Update URL: https://edge.microsoft.com/extensionwebstorebase/v1/crx

Steps:

1. You need the Chrome ADMX (policy template) files on your domain controller or local Group Policy Editor.

2. Configure Forced-Install of the Extension

* Entry: fclbdkbhjlgkbpfldjodgjncejkkjcme;https://edge.microsoft.com/extensionwebstorebase/v1/crx

Detailed instructions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#extensioninstallforcelist

Firefox

Ghostery extension id on chrome web store is firefox@ghostery.com.

Use Mozilla provided policy templates to force install and configure the Ghostery extension. https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

Configuration with GPO

Configuration follows the schema provided by the extension https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension/blob/main/src/managed_storage.json

Available options are:

• disableOnboarding - automatically enables the extension without showing the onboarding process.
• disableUserControl - prevents access to the Ghostery settings page and hides UI elements that allow users to interact with the extension.
• disableUserAccount - prevents individual users from creating a Ghostery account or logging in.
• trustedDomains - pre-defines a list of domains that are trusted by default in the organization.

If the disableUserControl option is enabled, the disableUserAccount resolves to true, regardless of the value in the managed storage.

Chrome

1. Create Registry entry for the extension under path HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\<extension id>\policy https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-policy-for-extensions/#windows

2. Add configuration options as separate keys as on the following screenshot - be sure to use proper Type

JAMF template

Firefox

1. Create the manifest file that includes the configuration https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests#managed_storage_manifests
2. Upload the manifest file to managed operating system
3. Create a Registry key with a path to the manifest file https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests#windows - the key should be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\ManagedStorage\firefox@ghostery.com

Example manifest file:

Configure with Google Admin Console

In Admin Console:

1. Click on the extension in the Apps & Extensions list.
2. Look for the Policy or Configuration section.
3. You should see a text field or form labeled something like Policy for extensions or Custom JSON (the exact naming varies).

Example JSON file:

Custom builds

Ghostery may provide you with dedicated builds that have special extension ID or you can use the version provided by the extension stores.

Chrome

Requirements: extension id, url of manifest.xml

Follow Chrome's documentation to specify ExtensionInstallForcelist policy that force install extensions.

Example of manifest.xml

Firefox

Requirements: extension id, url of updates.json

Follow Mozilla's documentation.

Example of updates.json