ghostwords

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Comment · 13 days ago

Safari on iOS is next, after we iron out any issues with Safari on macOS.

Comment · 1 month ago

Privacy Badger works in Chrome, etc. (Manifest V3)

Comment · 8 months ago

Moving the toggle for "accounts.google.com" to full blocking in Privacy Badger ought to do it.

Heads up, full blocking of "accounts.google.com" will break some login pages entirely. But it is a good domain to fully block as long as you're comfortable using the "Disable for this site" button when something goes wrong.

Comment · 9 months ago

Nah, Privacy Badger is different. PB doesn't use ad blocker lists and comes with its own special features like replacing tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. And if you want to block all ads, PB works well in combination with ad blockers.

As for Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection, cookies are not the only tracking vector: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...

Comment · 9 months ago

With my cookie question I meant, what's the point of managing cookies if you already do a good job of blocking trackers?

Re fingerprint, similar question: why does this matter if you do a good job of blocking common trackers that perform fingerprinting?

Comment · 9 months ago

>You need multiple extensions

(I develop Privacy Badger.) There are significant benefits to adding PB or uBO to a browser that doesn't already ship with a real built-in ad blocker. While PB and uBO work well together and you may want to use both for various reasons, I wouldn't say you need both. Either one is enough by itself for most people.

>HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere has been deprecated and eventually removed from extension stores a few years ago: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...

>Phishing detection

Why isn't what's built into browsers enough?

>Cookie auto-delete

Why bother when blocking trackers and ads?

>Pop-up blocking

Is that the same as the various "annoyances" ad blocker lists?

Comment · 1 year ago

Thank you!

>i wasn't sure "report broken site" was actually useful, like this would really get to a human, and matter?

It matters! We generate and respond to daily aggregate reports. We also periodically comb through bunches of raw reports to see what aggregation misses.

Comment · 1 year ago