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LEGACY Privacy Badger for Firefox SEE README

10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2014-05-02 · latest 2015-08-06

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  1. …important for sites' functionality; they are supposed to be there as a result of these criteria: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/blob/master/y... If you don't want something to be on the list, you can also override it in…
  2. …makes the SelfDestructingCookies addon useles. This 'bug' is stil not fixed at time of writing btw: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/206#is... So i started using Disconnect instead...
  3. …interested to know if it is expected to work OK with NoScript (and NoScript with it)? [edit] From https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/73 and https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/463750477075578880 I assume it is compatible…
    comment by akavel · 2014-05-23 · in Privacy Badger
  4. Tracking bug for this (in Firefox): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/11
  5. …Friday) fixes the bug I mentioned. Subdomains of whitelisted sites are also whitelisted now. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63/files
  6. …This pull request will also apply the whitelisting to subdomains of the domains on the whitelist: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63 . Unfortunately blocking all those sites and making users whitelist them manually is a…
  7. …really whitelist all subdomains in order not to break sites. Luckily this was a one-line patch: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63 (though in the future, it is better for the whitelist to have wildcards in the cases…
  8. …local storage, fingerprinting, etc.) as time goes on. More info in the Firefox version's README: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/blob/eb1055c4...
  9. …blocks or cookieblocks the third party. I wrote up a basic description of the algorithm here: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/blob/master/R... So if you're testing Privacy Badger on a profile with no browsing history, it is…
  10. …find bugs, you can file them on github against either the Firefox or Chrome repos as appropriate. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues