Reviews for Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger by EFF Technologists
Review by ggles
Rated 5 out of 5
by ggles, 5 years agoFantastic addon. The amount of trackers this blocks is amazing, although I do think a history of the amount of trackers blocked would be cool. I love being able to choose whether to completely block a third party, or just block cookies. My only complaint would be it doesn't always judge which sites to block very well. It doesn't block unnecessarily, the sites automatically blocked are usually accurate. But it doesn't always block all the the trackers. For example, the third party tracker New Relic doesn't seem to get automatically blocked even though tracking is New Relic's whole purpose. So if you use this, I recommend turning on "Show domains that don't appear to be tracking you" in general settings, and making sure there are no trackers on websites you visit. With all that said, this addon is amazing and it's one of my favorites.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the compliments!
New Relic has been consistently blocked "out of the box" (https://www.eff.org/badger-pretraining) in the last several Privacy Badger releases. It could be that you've installed Privacy Badger a long time ago, and also that your other content blockers have been stopping New Relic so your Badger never gets to see New Relic's tracking.
New Relic has been consistently blocked "out of the box" (https://www.eff.org/badger-pretraining) in the last several Privacy Badger releases. It could be that you've installed Privacy Badger a long time ago, and also that your other content blockers have been stopping New Relic so your Badger never gets to see New Relic's tracking.
2,604 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nahuel, 14 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18717883, 19 hours ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18637866, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by henry, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Puddleine, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Uthman, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RevSyd, 5 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kirk, 6 days ago"Auto block trackers" sounds good.
But the reality is, this caused so many troubles.
It breaks so many websites, so I often had to turn it off.
In the end, I just stopped using this.Developer response
posted 6 days agoIt would be great to know which websites broke, so that we could fix them for all Privacy Badger users. Feel free to email extension-devs@eff.org - Rated 5 out of 5by Th4t, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17928810, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18752595, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18373325, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14752054, 15 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18743544, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Diffa Juma, 16 days agoIt is well designed to act i automatic blocking... i like it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FFReviewAccount, 17 days agoHelps with tracking from corporations. You can trust the EFF and therefore this addon. If you can, send them a donation. EFF does so much for internet privacy that most people don't know about. We need them!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14706365, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kicojuk, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18745750, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PingedWaffle, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shogun5362, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by magnesium13, 20 days agoStill works on YouTube on 12/20/2024 after uBlock stopped working
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15324639, 20 days agoThis add-on is an essential one for me. I have been using it since it's earliest days, and with the amount of tracking going on, I need something that will keep the most egregious of companies from doing it anyway.
The best part? After using them for a long time, you (almost) forget how much it would annoy you. All those single pixel ads, instant playing video ads, and more, are history!