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from the sending-trackers-on-an-off-track-trek dept.
"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: 2, Interesting) by loiterer on Sunday May 04 2014, @08:24AM
For you (and for me, also a AdBlock, NoScript and also RequestPolicy) user this adds nothing.
For the common user who does not have the knowledge/will to fiddle with NoScript/RequestPolicy until enough of a given random site they find works, PrivacyBadger looks like it would reduce the amount of tracking, i.e. this is a tool which looks like it could easily help the "normal" user.
(Score: 1) by b on Sunday May 04 2014, @10:32AM
Another reply suggested [soylentnews.org] alternative tracking methods that might circumvent these add-ons (presuming that EasyPrivacy filters miss them too).