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Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking
- nicolaslem 8y agoGoogle: the web is bloated, we need AMP also Google: let's add a ping attribute to each link so that a click triggers two requests instead of one
- move-on-by 8y agoI've been extremely impressed with Privacy Badger with the past couple releases. It doesn't use bloated and impossible to keep updated block lists. Instead it uses heuristics to learn which domains are following you around on the web and block them. One major downfall with this approach is that it has to learn first. An update from August [1] allows Privacy Badger to now come pre-trained from the top 2,000 sites of the Majestic Million. Its great because it the same heuristics based approach - no lists to maintain, fully automatic. Combined with this new update, Privacy Badger is quite an effective tool with an extremely simple to use interface. Of course, I still use other extensions combined with Privacy Badger that are list based and gives fine-grained controls like uMatrix and a Pi-Hole. I would never recommend uMatrix or a Pi-Hole to a non-technical person, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Privacy Badger. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/giving-privacy-badger-jump-start https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/giving-privacy-badger-...