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Any idea what's the difference between Privacy Badger and Self Destructing Cookies addon? I would think SDC will also stop any tracking by deleting the cookies?

• swartzcr 11y ago
  Privacy Badger currently detects tracking via regular cookies, HTML5 local storage 'cookies', and canvas fingerprinting, with more methods aimed to be supported in future releases
  • mirimir 11y ago
    What other tracking methods does Privacy Badger plan to block in future releases? One can always test against evercookie.[0] And perhaps EFF could host a trustable demo site, along the lines of Panopticlick. I do get that this is an arms race, and that proprietary methods may be running under the radar, as Verizon's UIDH did for two years.[1] [0] https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/ https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/ [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_cookie_killer/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_c...
    • pde3 11y ago
      As many as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :) Good starting places for the current heuristics: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/src/heuristicblocking.js#L478 https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/src/webrequest.js#L358 https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/src/fingerprinting.js https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...
    • aidenn0 11y ago
      It won't currently block most of the evercookie tests, since it currently only targets 3rd-party tracking.