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Help EFF Test Privacy Badger; New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking

posted by martyb on Saturday May 03 2014, @01:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the sending-trackers-on-an-off-track-trek dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

"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.

You can try out Privacy Badger today on Firefox and Chrome.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:36PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:36PM (#39318) Homepage
    Adblock blocks what you ask it to block. If it's not blocking the right things, then you've not told it to block the right things. Stop being lazy, and help it to help you.
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 04 2014, @01:33AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday May 04 2014, @01:33AM (#39358) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday May 04 2014, @07:54AM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday May 04 2014, @07:54AM (#39411) Homepage
      Then your "don't matter what lists you subscribe to" was a desperately incomplete description of how you attempted to remedy the situation, and you shouldn't have been surprised when I suggested others.

      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.
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