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What's the difference between this and the EFF's Privacy Badger? It's not a complaint, as I realise the EFF wants browsers to adopt such technology natively.
by blowski 9y ago
What's the difference between this and the EFF's Privacy Badger? It's not a complaint, as I realise the EFF wants browsers to adopt such technology natively.
- cyborgx7 9y agoI haven't been able to find such an explicit explanation of he policies Privacy Badger uses. It is all very vague machine lerning talk. I would like to see a clearer comparison as well.
- floatboth 9y agoPrivacy Badger uses simple heuristics like cookie entropy estimation, domain prevalence (how many other domains embed that domain's stuff): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/src/js/heuristicblocking.js https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/src/js/h... and static block lists https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist_new.txt https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist_new.txt
- alwillis 9y agoMore on how Intelligent Tracking Prevention works and how it may benefit Facebook and Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514859