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by ghostwords 2y ago
It's funny how a legitimate ad blocker suffers from zealous enforcement while malicious extensions are generally fine. For instance: https://palant.info/2025/01/13/chrome-web-store-is-a-mess/
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by ghostwords 2y ago
This article is a manipulative hit piece from 2018. Employee donations with employer match are still individual donations. "Controversial" court payouts? Come on.
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by ghostwords 2y ago
>EFF takes millions from Google ???
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by ghostwords 2y ago
Current "Platforms program policies": https://support.google.com/platformspolicy/answer/3013851 >You must not use device fingerprints... Compare to the update: https://support.google.com&#x
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by ghostwords 2y ago
You're welcome! I didn't make it clear that you have to opt into blocking YouTube for now.
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by ghostwords 2y ago
You have to move the toggle for youtube.com to red first. Main Menu > Extensions > Extensions Manager > Privacy Badger > Settings > Tracking Domains > search for youtube.com > tap to update the toggle for youtube.com to
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by ghostwords 2y ago
You're welcome!
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by ghostwords 2y ago
Thank you for using Privacy Badger!!
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by ghostwords 2y ago
(I develop Privacy Badger.) Privacy Badger can replace YouTube embeds with "click to activate" placeholders. Faster browsing, better privacy, easy-to-use controls, at least when the replacement works properly. See "Pro tip #1
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A word about private attribution in Firefox(old.reddit.com)
77 points by ghostwords 2y ago|100 comments
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by ghostwords 2y ago
Dismantle systems of online surveillance. Limit online advertising to contextual ads, and to the same attribution methods advertisers have access to with traditional (TV, print and billboard) ads. Is your browser a user agent or an advertis
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by ghostwords 2y ago
(I develop Privacy Badger.) Privacy Badger can replace YouTube embeds with "click to activate" placeholders. Faster browsing, better privacy, easy-to-use controls (when the replacement works properly ...). See "Pro tip #1&quo
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by ghostwords 2y ago
Ah! We had to bump minimum Chrome version to 121 because of some stuff related to the Manifest V3 migration. Hopefully Iridium will update their browser soon; doesn't seem secure to run on old Chromium.
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by ghostwords 2y ago
Hi, PB dev here. Privacy Badger does not replace uBlock Origin, and uBlock Origin does not replace Privacy Badger. While one of them may well be enough for you, the two work well together. Our FAQ goes into what makes Privacy Badger differe
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Hello! Privacy Badger dev here. uBlock Origin is indeed an excellent privacy tool. However, uBlock Origin is not a replacement for Privacy Badger (nor is Privacy Badger a replacement for uBlock Origin). For one, uBlock Origin uses manually
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Recent related discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38301801
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Some thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38303956
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Hi, Privacy Badger dev and coauthor of a bunch of EFF posts about MV3. Here are some thoughts. We wrote the following call to action a couple of years ago in https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manif
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by ghostwords 3y ago
> If the things continue to develop the way they are now I am not comfortable making that assumption! We already went through one "lost decade" for Chrome extensions.
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by ghostwords 3y ago
DNR is better than at launch, but still full of feature gaps. How do you match a redirect response? How do you robustly rewrite URLs based on query parameters?[1] The fundamental problem is that DNR is not an adequate replacement for webReq
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by ghostwords 3y ago
There is a new userScripts API: https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644#issu...
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by ghostwords 3y ago
We lose the ability to innovate. The browser (Google) becomes the gatekeeper. And yes, we lose CNAME filtering.[1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/151#issuecomment... Google is an advertising comp
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Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions(developer.chrome.com)
171 points by ghostwords 3y ago|131 comments
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Privacy Badger dev here. Either extension is "enough" but there is value in using them together. More: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Direct link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/EFForg/badger-swarm
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581268
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Thank you!
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Privacy Badger dev here. The most interesting thing from the post may be that fixing tracking redirects is partially broken in Google’s Manifest V3: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302 Google also
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by ghostwords 3y ago
Privacy Badger dev here. I think the biggest concern is to only install extensions from developers and organizations you trust. As for your browser fingerprint, on the one hand, the more custom your browser setup, the more you stand out. On
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by ghostwords 3y ago
The summary: >By default, Privacy Badger receives periodic learning updates from Badger Sett, our Badger training project. This “remote learning” automatically discovers trackers present on thousands of the most popular sites on the Web.

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