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Deeplinks Blog by Lena Cohen | July 22, 2024

Why Privacy Badger Opts You Out of Google’s “Privacy Sandbox”

The latest update of Privacy Badger opts users out of ad tracking through Google’s “Privacy Sandbox.” Despite being billed as a privacy feature, Privacy Sandbox protects Google’s bottom line at the expense of your privacy. Privacy Sandbox might be less invasive than third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s good...
Deeplinks Blog by Alexei Miagkov, Daly Barnett | January 10, 2024

Privacy Badger Puts You in Control of Widgets

The latest version of Privacy Badger replaces embedded tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. This is part of Privacy Badger's widget replacement feature, where certain potentially useful widgets are blocked and then replaced with placeholders. This protects privacy by default while letting you restore the original widget whenever you want it or...
A swarm of badger bees surrounding the words Privacy Badger SWARM in the center
Deeplinks Blog by Alexei Miagkov, Daly Barnett | November 7, 2023

Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers

Today we are introducing Badger Swarm, a new tool for Privacy Badger that runs distributed Badger Sett scans in the cloud. Badger Swarm helps us continue updating and growing Privacy Badger’s tracker knowledge, as well as continue adding new ways of catching trackers. Thanks to continually expanding Badger Swarm-powered training...
Google Spying
Deeplinks Blog by Alexei Miagkov, Daly Barnett | September 19, 2023

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after...
Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers | July 17, 2019

Sharpening Our Claws: Teaching Privacy Badger to Fight More Third-Party Trackers

The latest release of Privacy Badger gives it the power to detect and block a new class of evasive, pervasive third-party trackers, including Google Analytics. Most blocking tools, like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and Firefox’s native blocking mode (using Disconect’s block lists), use human-curated lists to decide whether to block or...

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