Reviews for Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger by EFF Technologists
2,605 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Spencer T, 7 years agoThis app makes it so easy to block tracking by third parties and makes it even easier to fix a page when it is broken by a filter, unlike other popular blockers.
- Rated 4 out of 5by danbeast, 7 years agowell worth the security , for the resource load...can be glitchy at times
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13335749, 7 years agoPB is a great way to reduce tracking across the web. It uses heuristics to determine if a tracker is doing something it shouldn't, and blocks them accordingly. It does catch some trackers that add-ons with static lists sometimes miss.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ayushman Singh, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12801976, 7 years agoPrivacy Badger is in combination with pi-hole and HTTPS Everywhere the ideal privacy tool.
Now if the data could be synced with Firefox Sync it would get the much deserved 5 stars. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13337214, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Stavros, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KristianLH, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by nrciz767, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13325415, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13314204, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by privacyrocks, 7 years agoTo not be tracked from site to site is great and PB does this without any fuss or muss. 10/10. Easy to use and install. Love EFF Tech.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13306618, 7 years agoI have a Pi-hole attached to my router which blocks a lot of ad-serving sites, trackers and malware sites.
I thought I had things covered pretty good, but when I started using Privacy Badger it still finds some trackers to block.
Great job EFF, thank you!
Now my only wish is that you make this available for MS Edge. I still prefer the lean-and-clean minimalistic approach of Edge over Firefox, but for privacy reasons (cookies management and Privacy Badger) I moved to Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by hjoseph7, 7 years agoWorks great in Chrome not, so great but good in Firefox. Does not slow down my browser at all. I think it also blocks some pop-up ads, but not all. Too bad MSN is not jumping on the bad wagon..
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sion, 7 years agoHow does Privacy Badger interact with things like uBlock Origin & Ghostery?
Do their functions collide with Privacy Badger (PB), like they block something before PB can analyze it?Developer response
posted 7 years agoPrivacy Badger should work well in combination with other blocking add-ons. The major difference between using Badger on its own and using Badger with other blockers is that your Badger will learn to block far fewer domains when used with other blockers. This is fine: Privacy Badger will be there to catch whatever the list-based blockers let through.
To get answers to Privacy Badger questions, please visit our GitHub issue tracker at github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues, or just email info@eff.org. - Rated 5 out of 5by Wok, 7 years agoThis addon is very disappointing. I cannot give the reason why in this space because my reviews have already been deleted twice by the moderators. Just benchmark the addon for your Internet uses with uBO-Scope and see what is not blocked despite training Privacy Badger for weeks.
Edit: I update the score to positive, because the Google Analytics issue is fixed:
https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/574#issuecomment-510036366Developer response
posted 7 years agoWok, I understand you are frustrated with Privacy Badger not doing something you think it should. If this is about Privacy Badger not learning to block Google Analytics, we have an open issue for this problem, which I think you already discovered: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/367. We just haven't had a chance to look into it yet. If you'd like this issue to get more attention, please leave a comment there, or send an email to info@eff.org. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12761363, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13192564, 7 years agoThe great difference between Privacy badger and other blockers is that it learns what follows me on the internet and blocks it on every website.