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Wasn't the local learning disabled because it enabled fingerprinting?[0] Has that been fixed since you're recommending it? [0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2

• ghostwords 4y ago
  I'm not sure what you are asking. What am I recommending? All extensions that modify page state are fingerprintable. Privacy Badger's local learning creates the possibility of additional fingerprinting. As discussed in the blog post you linked to, we decided that we can deliver most of the benefits of automatic learning without local learning. We further believe that local learning can offer benefits that outweigh the risk of additional fingerprinting, which is why we kept the ability to re-enable this feature at the user's discretion. Does this answer your question?
  • hjek 4y ago
    > We further believe that local learning can offer benefits that outweigh the risk of additional fingerprinting, Nice. I thought the local learning (which was kinda the main appeal of PB) was dead after reading that post. Glad that isn't the case.
    • ghostwords 4y ago
      We've been trying to communicate that nothing essential changed, Privacy Badger still learns automatically, but we clearly have a ways to go before this becomes generally understood.