EFF Releases Privacy Badger To Try To Stop Online Tracking

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EFF Releases Privacy Badger To Try To Stop Online Tracking

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced this week the release of the GPLv3-licensed Privacy Badger 1.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EFF-Privacy-Badger

[souenzzo]

Why it's not on mozilla official 'store'?

[Danny3]

They should do something to help privacy in operating systems
Websites tracking is child's play compared to the power that an OS has to track

[xeekei]

I'lll stick with Ghostery until you can actually find Privacy Badger in Firefox's addon page.

[peppercats]

I'lll stick with Ghostery until you can actually find Privacy Badger in Firefox's addon page.

Ghostery is proprietary, FYI.
I suggest Disconnect. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...l-product-icon

Just so you know... Ghostery is owned by an ad company.

[Sdar]

Maybe is not in the Firefox's addon page cause new addons needs up to 12 weeks to be reviewed.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/07/22/add-ons-update-68/

Anyway if you are using uBlock and the firefox tracking protection probably there's nothing left for Privacy Badger to block.

[uid313]

They should do something to help privacy in operating systems
Websites tracking is child's play compared to the power that an OS has to track

Nobody uses the operating system anymore.
Most people only use the operating system to launch the web browser.
They do everything inside the web browser.

[uid313]

Ghostery is proprietary, FYI.
I suggest Disconnect. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...l-product-icon

Just so you know... Ghostery is owned by an ad company.

Thanks. I didn't know that.
That is very interesting.
I wonder how come an ad company makes something like Ghostery.
Isn't this the last thing they want people to use?
Isn't it a threat to their business model?
I would expect an ad company to try to sue something like Ghostery, not develop something like it.

[Michael_S]

They should do something to help privacy in operating systems
Websites tracking is child's play compared to the power that an OS has to track

Web tracking is not child's play. http://samy.pl/evercookie/ and https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - two different ways your browser can be tracked, and if a group of hobbyist free software enthusiasts can come up with them you can bet everything you own that Google Ad Services and every major advertising network has something at least as good. Privacy Badger, Ghostery, Disconnect, etc... are very weak connections (edit: I meant protections, not connections) against either of them.

But further, Mozilla just works with the browser. Offering an OS is a whole different job.

[foolishgrunt]

Ghostery is proprietary, FYI.
I suggest Disconnect. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...l-product-icon

Just so you know... Ghostery is owned by an ad company.

If you're using FireFox you can enable it's built-in tracking protection, which uses Disconnect's block list and makes the Disconnect extension redundant.

Also, there's a lot of FUD going around about Ghostery being owned by an ad company. But third-party analysis shows that the Ghostery extension is an effective tracker blocker, and any sort of reporting that could be used to profit by Ghostery is available on an opt-in basis only. Personally, I use FireFox tracking protection and Ghostery (opted out of reporting) in tandem with no concerns.