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I 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 c

• floatboth 9y ago
  Privacy 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
  • blowski 9y ago
    So this new WebKit one is more complex?
    • floatboth 9y ago
      Of course. They shoved goddamn machine learning into the WebKit one.