Reviews for Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger by EFF Technologists
Review by Dark_Ronius
Rated 5 out of 5
by Dark_Ronius, 8 years agoAdd-on, for me, largely replaces the old Ghostery add-on (which no longer blocks cookies or apparently much at all really). The traffic light system is insanely simple to understand, and makes it quick and easy to fine-tune your experience. It would be great if you could combine a filterlist with it so you have instant, out of the box protection without having to install an ad-blocker. It would also be great if it provided some indicator on why it considers a url to be tracking you- a hit count for each attempted access, for example, or even just make the title text for each site a darker font (and vice versa).
Also, I know they have done it for a while now, but I respect EFF for finally producing their Add-Ons on the official Firefox repository... Although they probably didn't have a choice with it impossible to install unsigned add ons now on anything but the Developer version of the browser. I feel this is what EFF should have done all along, to counter clones appearing instead, along with maybe a warning about Firefox's policies. Although I'm in support of the reasons EFF declined to upload add-ons like https Everywhere for such a long time, for me the ultimate aim of getting the protection offered to as many users as possible probably should have been the more important focus?
Also, I know they have done it for a while now, but I respect EFF for finally producing their Add-Ons on the official Firefox repository... Although they probably didn't have a choice with it impossible to install unsigned add ons now on anything but the Developer version of the browser. I feel this is what EFF should have done all along, to counter clones appearing instead, along with maybe a warning about Firefox's policies. Although I'm in support of the reasons EFF declined to upload add-ons like https Everywhere for such a long time, for me the ultimate aim of getting the protection offered to as many users as possible probably should have been the more important focus?
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Phlux, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pothi Kalimuthu, 23 days agoI found it to be the most efficient way to block (tracking) ads such as the big G's. Thanks for all the people behind the scene.
- Rated 5 out of 5by A17, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19679426, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19672007, a month agoGreat extension. Works for pretty much every website I use. Good shit, devs!
- Rated 5 out of 5by zircroniumpants2, a month ago
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Developer response
posted a month agoNo need, PB works well with built-in Firefox protections.
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