Privacy Badger 2.0 – Powerful Online Privacy Protection
Chrome / Firefox / Opera: When Privacy Badger was launched a few years ago , it was already a great tool for blocking third-party trackers, speeding up your browsing experience, and preventing your every move from tracking websites while you browse . The latest version is a huge improvement in almost every way.
Privacy Badger 2.0 contains some speed improvements that you might not notice right away – ultimately the tool does what it does faster than it used to, so your browsing experience speeds up a bit. In a statement, the EFF says:
Third-party tracking, which is when advertisers and websites track your online activity without your knowledge, control or consent, is a common practice in online advertising. Privacy Badger detects and then blocks third-party domains that seem to be tracking your browsing habits (for example, by installing cookies that can be used for tracking, or by fingerprinting your browser). If the same third-party domain is tracking you on three or more different websites, Privacy Badger will conclude that the third-party domain is a tracker and block future connections to it.
Privacy Badger always tells you how many third-party domains it has discovered and if they are trackers. In addition, users can control how Privacy Badger handles these domains, with the option to completely block the domain, only block cookies, or allow the domain.
Likewise, the new version also comes with protection against “ping” tracking and WebRTC leakage, so even if you are using a proxy that is a little less well designed, you won’t lose your IP address . In addition, Privacy Badger now includes import / export tools so you can take whatever the add-on has learned in one browser and add it to another – like your home computer or a computer at work – so you don’t have to start from scratch when each installation.
It’s a worthwhile update and you can download it from the links below. To learn about other browser add-ons that protect privacy, please read our full review here .
Privacy Badger | Electronic Frontier Foundation