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or read and change all your data on the websites you visit in chrome you are right to be alarmed you should only install extensions made by organizations you trust privacy badger requires these permissions to do its job of automatically detecting and blocking trackers on all websites you visit we are not ironically or unironically spying on you for more information see our privacy badger extension permissions explainer note that the extension permissions warnings only cover what the extension has access to not what the extension actually does with what it has access to such as whether the extension secretly uploads your browsing data to its servers privacy badger will never share data about your browsing unless you choose to share it by filing a broken site report for more information see eff s privacy policy for software key features how does privacy badger handle social media widgets social media widgets such as the facebook like button often track your reading habits even if you don t click them the social media companies often see exactly which pages you re seeing the widget on when blocking social buttons and other potentially useful video audio comments widgets privacy badger can replace them with click to activate placeholders you will not be tracked by these replacements unless you explicitly choose to click them what is global privacy control gpc global privacy control gpc is a new specification that allows users to tell companies they d like to opt out of having their data shared or sold by default privacy badger sends the gpc signal to every company you interact with alongside the do not track dnt signal what s the difference do not track is meant to tell companies that you don t want to be tracked in any way learn more about what we mean by tracking here privacy badger gives third party companies a chance to comply with dnt by adopting our dnt policy and blocks those that look like they re tracking you anyway when dnt was developed many websites simply ignored users requests not to be tracked that s why privacy badger has to act as an enforcer trackers that don t want to comply with your wishes get blocked today users in many jurisdictions have the legal right to opt out of some kinds of tracking that s where gpc comes in gpc is meant to be a legally binding request to all companies in places with applicable privacy laws for example the california consumer privacy act gives california residents the right to opt out of having their data sold by sending the gpc signal privacy badger is telling companies that you would like to exercise your rights the ccpa and other laws are not perfect which is why privacy badger uses both approaches it asks websites to respect your privacy and it blocks known trackers from loading at all does privacy badger prevent fingerprinting browser fingerprinting is an extremely subtle and problematic method of tracking which we documented with the cover your tracks project privacy badger can detect canvas based fingerprinting and will block third party domains that use it detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first party fingerprinting are ongoing projects of course once a domain is blocked by privacy badger it will no longer be able to fingerprint you why does privacy badger block ads actually nothing in the privacy badger code is specifically written to block ads rather it focuses on disallowing any visible or invisible third party scripts or images that appear to be tracking you even though you specifically denied consent by sending do not track and global privacy control signals it just so happens that most but not all of these third party trackers are advertisements when you see an ad the ad sees you and can track you privacy badger is here to stop that why doesn t privacy badger block all ads because privacy badger is primarily a privacy tool not an ad blocker our aim is not to block ads but to prevent non consensual invasions of people s privacy because we believe they are inherently objectionable we also want to create incentives for advertising companies to do the right thing of course if you really dislike ads you can also install a traditional ad blocker what do the red yellow and green sliders in the privacy badger menu mean red means that content from this third party domain has been completely disallowed yellow means that the third party domain appears to be trying to track you but it is on privacy badger s cookie blocking yellowlist of third party domains that when analyzed seemed to be necessary for web functionality in that case privacy badger will load content from the domain but will try to screen out third party cookies and referrers from it green means no action privacy badger will leave the domain alone technical details what is a third party tracker when you visit a webpage parts of the page may come from domains and servers other than the one you asked to visit this is an essential feature of hypertext on the modern web embedded images and code often use cookies and other methods to track your browsing habits often to display advertisements the domains that do this are called third party trackers and you can read more about how they work here what about tracking by the sites i actively visit like nytimes com or facebook com at present privacy badger primarily protects you against tracking by third party sites as far as privacy protections for first party sites sites that you visit directly privacy badger removes outgoing link click tracking on facebook and google we plan on adding more first party privacy protections in the future we are doing things in this order because the most scandalous intrusive and objectionable form of online tracking is that conducted by companies you ve often never heard of and have no relationship with first and foremost privacy badger is there to enforce do not track against these domains by providing the technical means to restrict access to their tracking scripts and images the right policy for whether nytimes com facebook com or google com can track you when you visit that site and the technical task of preventing it is more complicated because often tracking is interwoven with the features the site offers does privacy badger contain a list of blocked sites unlike other blocking tools we have not made decisions about which sites to block but rather about which behavior is objectionable domains will only be blocked if privacy badger observes the domain collecting unique identifiers after it was sent do not track and global privacy control signals privacy badger does contain a yellowlist of some sites that are known to provide essential third party resources those sites show up as yellow and have their cookies blocked rather than being blocked entirely this is a compromise with practicality and in the long term we hope to phase out the yellowlist as these third parties begin to explicitly commit to respecting do not track the criteria for including a domain on the yellowlist can be found here how was the cookie blocking yellowlist created the initial list of domains that should be cookie blocked rather than blocked entirely was derived from a research project on classifying third party domains as trackers and non trackers we will make occasional adjustments to it as necessary if you find domains that are under or over blocked please file a bug on github does privacy badger consider every cookie to be a tracking cookie no privacy badger analyzes the cookies from each site unique cookies that contain tracking ids are disallowed while low entropy cookies that perform other functions are allowed for instance a cookie like lang fr that encodes the user s language preference or a cookie that preserves a very small amount of information about ads the user has been shown would be allowed provided that individual or small groups of users reading habits could not be collected with them what is the privacy badger license where is the privacy badger source code privacy badger s source code is licensed under gplv3 this website s source code is licensed under agplv3 why does my browser connect to fastly com ip addresses on startup after installing privacy badger eff uses fastly to host eff s web resources fastly is eff s cdn privacy badger pings the cdn for the following resources to ensure that the information in them is fresh even if there hasn t been a new privacy badger release in a while https www eff org files pbconfig json eff does not set cookies or retain ip addresses for these queries troubleshooting i need help i found a bug what do i do now if a website isn t working like it should you can disable privacy badger just for that site leaving privacy badger enabled and protecting you everywhere else to do so navigate to the site with the problem click on privacy badger s icon in your browser toolbar and click the disable for this site button in privacy badger s popup you can also let us know about broken sites using the report broken site button to get help or to report bugs please email extension devs eff org if you have a github account you can use our github issue tracker you can also find us on mastodon and bluesky i run a domain that uses cookies or other tracking how do i stop privacy badger from blocking me one way is to stop tracking users who have turned on global privacy control or do not track signals i e stop collecting cookies supercookies or fingerprints from them privacy badger will stop learning to block that domain the next version of privacy badger to ship with an updated pre trained list will no longer include that domain in the list most privacy badger users will then update to that list you can also unblock yourself by promising to meaningfully respect the do not track signal to do so post a verbatim copy of eff s do not track policy to the url https example com well known dnt policy txt where example com is replaced by your domain posting eff s dnt policy on a domain is a promise of compliance with eff s dnt policy by that domain if your domain is compliant with eff s dnt policy and declares this compliance most privacy badgers will see this declaration the next time they encounter your domain also the next version of privacy badger to ship with an updated pre trained list will probably include your declaration of compliance in the list note that the domain must support https to protect against tampering by network attackers the path contains well known per rfc 5785 also note that you must post a copy of the policy at each compliant subdomain you control for example if you wish to declare compliance by both sub1 example com and sub2 example com you must post eff s dnt policy on each domain how do i uninstall remove privacy badger firefox see the disable or remove add ons mozilla help page chrome see the install and manage extensions chrome web store help page edge see the add or remove browser add ons extensions and toolbars microsoft help page why aren t videos loading on youtube why isn t privacy badger blocking ads on youtube is youtube not working try disabling privacy badger on youtube if that resolves the issue see if re enabling privacy badger breaks youtube again if youtube goes back to not working please tell us so we can look into what s going on are you surprised that ads aren t being blocked on youtube privacy badger is primarily a privacy tool not an ad blocker when you visit youtube directly privacy badger does not block ads on youtube because youtube does not use third party trackers if you really dislike ads you can also install a traditional ad blocker compatibility will you be supporting any other browsers besides chrome firefox edge and opera we are working towards safari on macos support safari on ios seems to lack certain extension capabilities required by privacy badger to function properly chrome on android does not support extensions to use privacy badger on android install firefox for android privacy badger does not work with microsoft edge legacy please switch to the new microsoft edge browser can i download privacy badger directly from eff org if you use google chrome you have to install extensions from chrome web store to install privacy badger in chrome visit privacy badger s chrome web store listing and click the add to chrome button there otherwise you can use the following links to get the latest version of privacy badger directly from eff org firefox https www eff org files privacy badger latest xpi chromium https www eff org files privacy_badger chrome crx is privacy badger compatible with other extensions including adblockers privacy badger should be compatible with other extensions while there is likely to be overlap between the various manually edited advertising tracker lists and privacy badger unlike adblockers privacy badger automatically learns to block trackers based on their behavior this means that privacy badger may learn to block trackers your adblocker doesn t know about is privacy badger compatible with firefox s built in privacy protections it s fine to use firefox s built in content blocking enhanced tracking protection or etp and privacy badger together while there is overlap between firefox s tracker lists and privacy badger privacy badger automatically learns to block trackers based on their behavior this means that privacy badger s automatically generated and regularly updated blocklist contains trackers not found in firefox s human generated lists additionally firefox does not fully block tracking content in regular non private windows by default what about firefox s total cookie protection dynamic first party isolation or dfpi total cookie protection works by keeping third party cookies isolated to the site they were set on however if unblocked trackers can still use techniques like first party cookie syncing and browser fingerprinting they can track your ip address or they can use some combination of these techniques trackers harvest sensitive information and serve as vectors for malware not to mention unblocked trackers slow down websites and waste your bandwidth keep in mind that privacy badger is not just a tracker blocker supporting privacy badger how can i support privacy badger thanks for asking individual donations make up about half of eff s support which gives us the freedom to work on user focused projects if you want to support the development of privacy badger and other projects like it you can throw us a few dollars here thank you if you want to help directly with the project we appreciate that as well please see privacy badger s contributing document for ways to get started where can i find general information about privacy badger that i can use for a piece i m writing glad you asked check out this downloadable press kit that we ve put together as an administrator how do i configure privacy badger on my managed devices please see our enterprise deployment and configuration document back to 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