cowlicks/privacypossum
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Privacy Possum makes tracking you less profitable
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2018-05-16 · latest 2025-08-31
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It appears not to have been updated since 2019? See https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
comment by barnabee · 2025-08-31 · in Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy -
Privacy Possum is a rewrite by a former Privacy Badger dev and goes beyond what Privacy Badger does. https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum#why-not-privacy-ba...
comment by _-david-_ · 2019-09-05 · in In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default -
…a Firefox and Chrome extension that works better against fingerprinting than Privacy Badger: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
comment by gasull · 2018-06-30 · in Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting -
…part of the Privacy Badger development. He makes a good case of why his form is different here: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum . I've been testing it out for few days now and it is doing something, though can't vouch for how…
comment by Scottn1 · 2018-05-16 · in Firefox can now stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online