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Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block hidden trackers

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2014-05-02 · latest 2025-09-28

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    Privacy Badger should support Safari #549
    story by doener · 2025-09-28 · 0 comments
  2. As an example, feeds available on every github repo: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/commits.atom https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/tags.atom https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/releases.atom
    comment by crtasm · 2025-01-19 · in Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
  3. EFF's Privacy Badger shows a few potential trackers when loading that page. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger
    comment by et-al · 2024-06-10 · in Designing a Lego orrery
  4. …of links to answers to start: - https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with... - https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/discussions/2786#dis...
    comment by ghostwords · 2022-06-09 · in Privacy Badger is a browser extension that learns to block invisible trackers
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    Overview of Chrome Manifest V3 Proposal's Impact Upon Privacy Badger
    story by Santosh83 · 2019-09-23 · 0 comments
  6. …URL parameter that flips ads from personalized to non-personalized (npa=1) and block accordingly. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/2046
    comment by d2wa · 2018-06-01 · in Flattr now deletes your web browsing history within 3 months
  7. …because it's more than just an ad blocker: it's meant for privacy across the board. According to https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/746 CDNs are often blocked because they set localstore/cookies and do some stuff that might…
    comment by akiselev · 2017-06-23 · in An all-in-one beginner's guide to modern React application development
  8. …cookie entropy estimation, domain prevalence (how many other domains embed that domain's stuff): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/src/js/h... and static block lists https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist_new.txt
    comment by floatboth · 2017-06-08 · in Intelligent Tracking Prevention
  9. …been working on something a little bit more practical, and have re-engaged activity on it. [0] [0] https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/266
    comment by shakna · 2016-12-15 · in The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here
  10. …amounts to fear-mongering. See their previous discussion about issue #1 that tdkl mentioned above ( https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/266 ), and you'll see the following comment at the bottom: > This was discussed in the…
    comment by ThatGeoGuy · 2016-12-14 · in The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here
  11. …1) Privacy Badger maintains a separate, plain-text list of every domain you've ever visited: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/1064 2) Every time you start Firefox, Privacy Badger will connect to a IP on port 443.…
    comment by tdkl · 2016-12-14 · in The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here
  12. …as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :) Good starting places for the current heuristics: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr...…
    comment by pde3 · 2015-08-06 · in Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
  13. …for this WebRTC-punching, who says he's from White Ops (whiteops.com) working on anti-bot tools https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss...
    comment by madeofpalk · 2015-07-28 · in “We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC”
  14. It sounds like the requests were a bug: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss... This looks like it's trying to exercise every dark corner of the user's browser in order to ensure that the browser is a real,…
    comment by bri3d · 2015-07-15 · in The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses
  15. Additionally, the STUN attempts are supposedly gone since yesterday: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss...
    comment by bri3d · 2015-07-15 · in The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses
  16. It is indeed here's a comment by the author on a github issue: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss...
    comment by ktsmith · 2015-07-15 · in The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses
  17. …). It works incredibly well but does have a whitelist which includes lot of CDNs ( https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/do... ) to prevent websites from breaking.
    comment by _nedR · 2015-06-29 · in The NoScript Misnomer
  18. …the Firefox or Chrome repos as appropriate. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues
    comment by aspidistra · 2014-05-02 · in Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy