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It sounds like this is similar to what Apple added to Safari two years ago (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-blocker-to-desktop-safari/ ht

It sounds like this is similar to what Apple added to Safari two years ago (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-blocker-to-desktop-safari/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-block...), though I don't know the details. I will be excited for the day when Privacy Badger is an unnecessary extension.

LamaOfRuin 7y ago
It seems like that would be today? I'm pretty sure they both work off the same Disconnect maintained list.
- teddyfrozevelt 7y ago
  Privacy Badger uses heuristics to determine when a domain might be tracking you. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-does-Privacy-Badger-work https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-does-Privacy-Badge...
  - LamaOfRuin 7y ago
    Ah, good to know. I'm not sure if they changed that since launch, or I was just conflating them with one of the other extensions. This sounds more like Safari's newer behaviour, which sounds good in theory but in Safari's case where it can't be turned off, it breaks things in practice. This seems like a good solution for people that are aware of what's happening enough to pay attention and disable it when something is not working as expected, but makes a bad default for the typical user.
floatingatoll 7y ago
Safari uses a machine-learning classifier algorithm to determine which third-party sites are trackers: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention/ https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... Disconnect may or may not use M-L classifiers in their selection process, I don’t know.
- edraferi 7y ago
  Similar to Privacy Badger? https://www.eff.org/privacybadger https://www.eff.org/privacybadger