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 Kelson, 8 days agoI use it alongside Firefox's built-in tracking protection for the embedded media placeholders.
(Sadly, it no longer auto-detects new trackers, because someone figured out how to track you using *that*, so it uses a pre-generated list now unless you *really* want to turn learning back on.)Developer response
posted 7 days agoThank you!
We like the click-to-activate widget replacements too, but Privacy Badger is more than that: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with-Firefox%27s-built-in-content-blocking - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18854015, 9 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Eddie Slabb, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13859790, 11 days agoFeel much more safe. Can readily see how Privacy Badger works.
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