"EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them."
From the launch description:
Privacy Badger is EFF's answer to intrusive and objectionable practices in the online advertising industry, and many advertisers' outright refusal to meaningfully honor Do Not Track requests. This week, Mozilla published research showing that privacy is the single most important thing that users want from their web browsers. Privacy Badger is part of EFF's growing campaign to deliver that privacy by giving you the technical means to disallow trackers within the pages you read on the Web.
This is an alpha release; we've been using it internally and don't think it's too buggy. But we're looking for intrepid users to try it out and let us know before we encourage millions of people to install it. If you find bugs, you can file them on github against either the Firefox or Chrome repos as appropriate.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Archon V2.0 on Saturday May 03 2014, @02:17PM
> Mozilla published research showing that privacy is the single most important thing that users want from their web browsers.
Which they then use to go on Facebook. Rather like using your body to shield your PIN at an ATM and then singing the digits as you type them.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Saturday May 03 2014, @03:36PM
What folks want is adblock for video which is giving me MAJOR headaches right now. Anybody else seeing adblock for chrome broken? because within the past few weeks i have seen adblock totally crap out when it comes to Webkit. Don't matter if its Chrome,Chromium, or Dragon, don't matter what lists you subscribe to, adblock is just straight up not working for a large chunk of video sites and a few banner ads. It is bad enough that I'm advising customers to switch to Palemoon until I can find some sort of workaround because the ads make the video stutter like crazy, really sucks ass.
As for FB? Having gotten married to a "commoner" (read non geek) I have found there is really TWO lines of communication going on with FB, the "public" FB which is filled with inane crap like "Oh look Jane had a baby girl" and then a second line where people use FB to say "call me" or to set up a private chat where they talk about the things they don't want broadcast on FB. Its really quite fascinating to see how much "under the radar" stuff goes on where FB is just used to set a time on make initial contact, and if I hadn't seen it first hand I would have thought the same as you but from what I've seen since getting married the ones that just shit everything onto FB are looked down upon, its almost treated like bad manners. Fascinating stuff.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:36PM
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 04 2014, @01:33AM
Bullshit because when you tell it to list blockable elements? you get NOTHING. So stop telling me I'm lazy and tell the devs to get off their asses and fix it. BTW on gecko? Works fine so its obviously NOT the user, its that a recent webkit update has fucked up adblock and the devs haven't fixed the problem. its not my job to debug their shit.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday May 04 2014, @07:54AM
It's certainly possible they've completely broken it recently. In which case, why didn't you just revert to the last known working version. Continuing with a broken version when you know there's an older version that works seems kinda dumb.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 04 2014, @03:04PM
Oh, so they only have your metadata? Well, that's okay then.