What is Reddit's opinion of
Privacy Badger?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
100 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Use something like the Privacy Badger add-on provided by the EFF. It dynamically checks to see if sites are following through multiple different pages and blocks them. If those Facebook like buttons cannot load, they cannot track you.
I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger is made by the EFF and is set to not block anything at first, but as you navigate the web it will learn which domains follow you around and keep track of your location, and begin to either block cookies or outright intercept and deny requests to those domains.
It takes some manual tuning, for instance I couldn't use my github login or see my gravitar, so I changed those from completely blocked to just blocking cookies, and it will often block images from large CDNs, but you can see every domain blocked and make decisions for yourself.
I highly recommend it. Here's what it looks like on Reddit, and here's the EFF's page: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
In terms of pure utility, I'd say RES (this is reddit, after all) and Privacy Badger (because I, personally, don't like it when Target know I'm pregnant before I do, let alone before I know I've been a woman my whole life).
Beyond that, there is really only one choice: XKCD substitutions. It's the difference between "Britain has had enough of experts" and "Britain has had enough of wizards". One of them is just depressing, and the other was in the news this time two years ago.
Use uBlock Origin and the EFF Privacy Badger and you are pretty much covered
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
You can throw in the HTTPS Everywhere too but it might slow down your browser
Adblock Plus is a different company. I don't know enough about Ublock Origin to say but I'm using privacy badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They're the good guys.
I use their browser extension Privacy Badger for all my ad-blocking needs online.
> Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
Ghostery has sold data before, which is why I wouldn't recommend it. Though it was recently bought out.
Personally, I use Privacy Badger from the EFF.
- Install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- Consider paying in cash for sensitive things (or just more frequently than you do today).
- Check your phone's location sharing preferences and limit everything to "Never" or at most "When I'm using the app".
Even if Adblock disappeared tomorrow, I would still be sheltered from many of the worst ads because I also use NoScript plus all Adobe Flash content I have set to Click to Activate. I'm not anti-ads, I'm just don't like how intrusive some ads are and how they can seriously affect the performance of some sites. For sites I use regularly I have adblock disabled but even then many ads are still blocked because I refuse to allow some scripts by ad networks such as doubleclick.
Lastly Privacy Badger (from EFF) helps too.
There is a lesson to be learned here that transcends one's political affiliation: don't trust advertisers. Facebook and their advertisers will take anyone's money, regardless of affiliation or motive, and allow them access to your personal data. This doesn't mean we should be overly cynical about intentions, but in all our online interactions, we need to remember that we are the product being sold. Reddit included. Because we are the product, we need to protect ourselves. Privacy Badger and uBlock can help protect you.
Althernatives to Ghostery are Disconnect and EFF Privacy Badger. Both are opensource and licensed under GPL, meaning they're free/libre software. You can view Ghosetry's code but the license is proprietary.
It depends who you're trying to protect yourself from really. In general it's safer to use open source products (I use android as my OS of choice for my phone) and to encrypt everything if possible. For simple steps you could install privacy badger and https everywhere browser plugins. If you want to kick it up a notch you could consider use of a VPN and / or Tor - it's not just for the "darknet". :)
I'm fairly passionate about privacy so happy to help out if you like. You can shoot any questions past me.
Doesn't Brave browser push their own 'respectful' ads instead of the ones that they are blocking?
I think I'd rather rely on Firefox and uBlock.
Maybe look into EFF's Privacy Badger?
not sure if you're joking, but incognito/private browsing is only effective to a certain point.
your cookies are not stored, i.e. you are not logged in to start. this means searches are not stored in your Google search history.
btw if you go through your account privacy settings, you can actually turn off search history. of course Google is probably storing it anyway, but at least they are claiming not to.
your IP address is still included with every web request. so, they can simply correlate your IP address with the IP address of an existing user account (yours).
also NSA is watching
also fb and other "third party" sites have scripts loaded which track you.
Tem um outro plugin muito bom: Privacy Badger. Ele é desenvolvido pela EFF que é bem engajada em proteção de privacidade. As primeira coisas que eu sempre faço quando eu instalo um browser é instalar o Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin e ligar o Do Not Track.
This is why you should never use the internet without a form of adblock, a lot of supposedly legitimate advertisement services serve malware. Also if you aren't using Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere you should be.
I'll save everyone a lot of time:
>How is Privacy Badger different to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge, or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking.
Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do online.
> share on Facebook button
ah the buttons that are tracking everyone (even those without accounts) around the internet.
There is a reason you should install something that blocks trackers and tracking cookies
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
but you should really be blocking ads as well as they are a vector for malware.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock (scroll down for links to the verious browser versions)
and for the person who really wants to be sure of what they are running on their machine, you activate advanced mode on UO block the lot and whitelisting on a per domain basis
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering (check the youtube video linked on that page)
They answer this in their FAQ.
> How is Privacy Badger different to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions? > > Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking. > > Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do online.
Plus they sold users' data to advertisers in the past. Apparently Ghostery was sold to a company which is doing good PR to tell everyone it never happened. Use Privacy Badger instead.
> Recently I've become aware of just how many sites run code on my computer even when I visit presumably benign sites, which makes me a little uneasy. So I replaced FlashBlock with NoScript and am now only running Javascript I care about. Sorry, google, but google-analytics.com is out of the loop here. You already know enough about me.
You might also be interested in Privacy Badger.
Ik raad Privacy-badger aan. Die is ontwikkeld door een bekende, onafhankelijke partij: het EFF.
Disconnect, ghostery, adblockplus enzovoort hebben vaak mooie beginselen en bouwen in eerste instantie mooie producten, maar het zijn, uiteindelijk, gewoon commerciële bedrijven en bedrijfjes. En -helaas- werkt dat het goed beschermen van privacy toch vaak nog tegen. Google begon ooit ook immers als privacy-bewuste, klanten-eerst dienst.
Sidebar to this discussion- yesterday I installed Privacy Badger from EFF. Great tool by the way. Most of the sites I visit hover around 10 trackers average. Reddit has 13. Cracked.com- 31. 31!
The EFF has an extension that could accurately be called "I Don't Want Cookies" but instead it is called Privacy Badger. Mainly blocks tracking cookies, not all of them.
I've recently stopped using Ghostery in favor of Privacy Badger. Honestly I'm not sure if I'm less protected, but I do have less of a broken web browsing experience.
THEY DO NOT NEED TO TRACK INFORMATION ABOUT ME.
They already want to serve ads, and I pay them to remove them. Then they want to track and ALSO make money off me, despite me paying to remove ads
No.
Stop fucking tracking me.
PS: Anyone who wants to stop trackers, download Privacy Badger from the EFF.
The EFF is a non-profit committed to protecting and defending your rights in the the digital world.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
>Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
second answer:
>Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do online.
Dir geht's wohl nur um technische Lösungen, aber wichtiger ist mMn. das richtige Verhalten:
- Datensparsamkeit, also nur Daten preisgeben die absolut nötig sind (Warum braucht ein Online Shop meine Telefonnummer? Wenn's ein Pflichtfeld ist, evtl. eine nicht-existierende eingeben.)
- mehrere Emailadressen mit abgestufter Anonymität nutzen, mindestens eine kostenlose, mit Pseudonym registrierte, für allen umwichtigen Kram und eine "offizielle", die man immer dann angibt wenn auch der echte Name dazu bekannt ist
- für jeden Dienst unterschiedliche Nutzernamen und Passwörter nutzen
- nicht herumsurfen während man bei großen sozialen Seiten eingeloggt ist, besser noch unterschiedliche Browser dafür nutzen oder den privaten Modus
- regelmäßig die Cookies, den Verlauf und den Cache im Browser löschen
Bei Erweiterungen sei vorsichtig - die stellen oft ein großes Datensicherheitsrisiko dar (Stichwort: Web of Trust), da sie meist irgendwie Geld verdienen müssen.
Schau dir mal den Privacy Badger an, der wird von einer gemeinnützigen Organisation bereitgestellt.
Privacy Badger does both what Ad-Block and Disconnect do, in 1 extension on Firefox and Chrome. It's also made by the EFF
EDIT: It doesn't block ALL ads like Ad-block tries to, but I haven't noticed ads since installing it (And it's my only ad/tracker blocking extension)
EFF says they are working on a solution that will possibly be included in Privacy Badger, but who knows how long that will take to implement.
The IETF has issued RFC 7528 which defines pervasive tracking as an attack exploit, encouraging development of internet protocols that are inherently resistant to pervasive tracking.
Privacy Badger is a content blocker, Privacy Possum is a fingerprinting blocker.
I am wary of using Privacy Badger, as it's heuristic nature means it lets the trackers in before they can block them. They did add some pre-defined rules a while ago for blocking some common trackers but that's about it. Filter-based content blockers like uBlock Origin do block the trackers the moment you install them and have a lot less false alarms as the contents are user-contributed, not heuristic-based.
The usage of Privacy Possum, though, depends on how much you care about fingerprinting as a whole, I think of it as a good alternative to some extensions that only block canvas fingerprinting for example.
> Ik raad aan om de extensie: 'Disconnected' te gebruiken. Dat schakelt alle trackers uit, ook voor Google.
Een alternatief dat ook prima werkt: Privacy Badger van de EFF.
I'm using Privacy Badger instead of Adblock Plus and Ghostery. It doesn't block all ads, just everything that tries to keep track of you. So the shady stuff gets filtered out, while acceptable advertisments are still visible. To me this is bit fairer to the websites you're visiting.
> Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
I abandoned Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin entirely after I setup my Pi-hole.
If they're legitimate, simple ads, they come through. That's perfectly fine to my mind; people have to eat and I have zero problems paying for content with my eyeballs if the advertiser is doing it right.
I keep Privacy Badger around, though, because tracking protection is still necessary.
>In the run-up to the hearing, privacy campaigners argued that ISPs should be treated differently from Google and Facebook, as in many cases consumers only have one choice of broadband provider. You can choose not to use Facebook or Google’s search engine, and there are lots of tools you can use to block their tracking on other parts of the web, for example, Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit civil liberties group.
>It’s much harder to prevent ISPs from tracking you. To mask all of your browsing behavior you can use a VPN service (which incurs a subscription cost) or try using Tor, both of which make browsing more complicated.
Note: /u/Thatoneprivacyguy's excellent Guide to Choosing The Best VPN For You is one of the best, most objective and updated VPN guide I'm familiar with. And in general, check out /r/PrivacyToolsIO for other technology-based news and /r/Privacy for privacy-related news.
>What’s the next step for privacy campaigners? The EFF’s Jeremy Gillula said: “It’s certainly a bit of a Hail Mary, but I think we’d try to convince President Trump that signing a bill that helps big corporate interests by eliminating Americans’ privacy and weakening their cybersecurity isn’t exactly ‘draining the swamp’.”
Ha ha ha ha. Ha. See above, protect yourself. And consider an alternate ISP if there's one in your area who refuses to engage in this uhh… what's the word… Privacy rape. Sonic.net is one such example, for CA. Anyone recommend any others?
>“If that doesn’t work, then we can still try to make some headway with state legislatures; continue working to encrypt the entire web; and work harder on creating other, easy-to-use tools people can use to protect their privacy from the snooping eyes of their internet provider.”
Generell würde ich sagen dass man mit "freeware bzgl. Systemsicherheit bzw. -optimierung" und Browser-Add-ons eher vorsichtig und sparsam sein sollte, da man so den Bock zum Gärtner machen kann (siehe die ganz aktuelle Datenschutzkatastrophe mit dem Add-On "Web of Trust").
Ansonsten nutze ich noch den Privacy Badger, der mit der EFF einen recht vertrauenswürdigen Hersteller hat.
Privacy Badger is an addon which essentially blocks advertising cookies and other third party trackers. Basically, it stops ads and companies from being able to follow your browsing and track what you're looking at. Ever looked at something on Amazon then had that product show up all over your search? Basically it stops that.
Disconnect does something similar, but also anonymises your data in order to stop people tracking you. They also provide a service through which they filter your search engine queries to "disconnect" your identifying data from them.
From their website:
>Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger. NoScript if you want that extra step, but usually the others alone will take care everything.
I still prefer using EFF's Privacy Badger as well as a plugin for user agent spoofer. I'd rather these megacorps didn't track me everywhere I go on the web.
Be careful with Ghostery. There's a controversy surrounding its parent company selling user data to ad companies.
Instead, check out Privacy Badger, which is maintained by the EFF.
People, please stop using BetterPrivacy:
BetterPrivacy was needed in the past to remove LSO or “Flash cookies,” but since the advent of ClearSiteData API, this is no longer needed.
Flashblock is an extension that allows you to ‘click to play’ Flash. It is preferable to uninstall Flash. Also, this functionality is now built-in anyway.
Ghostery is proprietary, you are better off with Privacy Badger.
The rest is fine.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#does_it_prevent_fingerprinting
"Does Privacy Badger prevent fingerprinting? Currently, Privacy Badger does not prevent browser fingerprinting, of the sort we demonstrated with the Panopticlick project. But we will be adding fingerprinting countermeasures in a future update!"
Not really "IP Address", but they use a Super cookie through the "Share this on Facebook" links that are everywhere. So if your IP changes, say... you take your laptop to TurdBucks and use wifi there. Well, through that Supercookie, they know you are that "supercookie" and therefor are someone who lives at a house, and goes to TurdBucks on a computer. They can track the time, dates, and what sites you browse based on that thing, and it could be that you are driving to another state and visit a McDowells for Lunch and browse to howIdatemoms.com when you are only out of the house.
Yeah, it isnt just IP.
This is why I recommend https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
💬 <code>FORUM</code> Wiki glitch?
> Just letting you know I managed to fix it. I was playing with my add ons on firefox and on Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) I allowed the tracker www.scp-wiki.net to track me and everything is back to normal.
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I recall reading somewhere that Ghostery does something pretty blatant/detectable when blocking trackers that makes you fairly identifiable as well. I personally use Privacy Badger which is made by the EFF.
Ghostery is a business that wants to collect your data. While it's blocking the connections to the trackers it's still collecting that data to sell. Privacy Badger is by the EFF and now out of BETA, a much more trustworthy extension.
Lifted straight from the FAQ:
> However if you run extensions like Adblock Plus or Ghostery in their default configurations, Privacy Badger can significantly increase your privacy online. (Adblock does not block invisible trackers by default, Ghostery does not block anything by default.)
Remember folks,
bye bye ads and trackers
> So, while I don't think the CPC should have done a data-mining petition on the attacks,
How about a data mining page? There are three trackers on the Liberal page (two blocked as 'bad' by Privacy Badger) and six on the NDP page (four blocked as 'bad' by Privacy Badger). (Get Privacy Badger here.)
Just saying... if we're going to get upset about data mining, it's not just text fields that we should be complaining about. Indeed, those are easier to avoid because you just don't fill them out.
Just saying:
... Privacy Badger detected 20 potential <em>trackers</em> on this page...
(I'm an r/privacy person)
But the article is pretty interesting, thanks!
Just want to mention that ghostery takes "donations" and doesn't block trackers from sites that "donated". <em>Privacy Badger</em> is a very good (maybe even better) alternative, it's made by EFF!
Ja apsolutno cijenim svoju privatnost na Internetu, tako da idem dosta daleko da je i ostvarim, pa se pronađoh u temi.
- VPN od provajdera kojem vjerujem kada god sam na javnom WiFi-u.
- Ne koristim Microsoft-ove niti Apple-ove proizvode (svaki uređaj koji imam je baziran na Linux-u).
- Google koristim samo za YouTube. DuckDuckGo za pretragu, eventualno StartPage kada DDG ne daje dovoljno dobre rezultate.
- Imam Google account sa mail-om na sopstvenoj domeni, ne koristim GMail, i u postavkama privatnosti sam stavio sve na off (tipa praćenje rezultata, praćenje YouTube historije i slično).
- Što se tiče telefona, generični Android je, sa svim mogućim backup opcijama isključenim.
- Privacy Badger neizostavan, kao i adblocker naravno.
- Iznajmljujem server za par eura mjesečno na kojem vodim svoj sajt i Nextcloud (kao alternativu Dropbox-u i sličnim). Dakle, svi podaci su u mojim rukama.
- Koristim Signal za instant messaging, ili, u slučaju da osoba nema i ne želi da ima Signal instaliran, obične SMS poruke ili pozive. Nemam niti jednu Facebook aplikaciju na telefonu (jer zahtijevaju tonu pristupa, što Facebook-u zbog njegove sumnjive historije ne dam). Ponekad preko browser-a na telefonu otvorim početnu na Facebook-u, ali poruke ne mogu da vidim (prije par mjeseci Facebook počeo polako uklanjati podršku za poruke preko browser-a na telefonu i redirektovati direktno na Google Play Store da preuzmem Messenger, što apsolutno odbijam).
- Odbijam third-party cookies na svim browser-ima koje koristim.
- Kada želim da tražim nešto što baš nikako ne želim da iko zna, upalim Tor Browser.
Dakle, imam dvije online "ličnosti": jedna javna (kada hoću da rant-ujem ili da kažem nešto javno to ide ili na moj blog ili na Twitter) i jedna privatna (koja komunicira samo preko Signal-a i gotovo uvijek lažira lokaciju na online servisima).
Yup, incognito mode is about eliminating tracking you on your own hardware (think: autocomplete and cache) and not about them not tracking you.
For that you need to use stuff like Privacy Badger or Ghostery that block outside servers from contacting your machine.
Yes, that is a cookie related thing - your login token is stored as a cookie on your computer, and is thus deleted by the addon when you close the tab. If your goal is tracking protection, you might want to look into Privacy Badger.
> Protip: Ghostery + ABP is basically mandatory on the modern internet.
Dump ABP and replace with uBlock Origin, NoScript & Privacy Badger are also great although they require user customization.
And if you want to go all in, use a special HOSTS file.
Well time to post these links again.
Use those to protect yourself from tracking and whatnot.
Never heard of Ublock before this week's TekThing. I used to use Ghostery ages ago until it became clear they're sneaky bastards, so switched to EFF's Privacy Badger (because: EFF).
It's got me interested. Any thoughts on Ublock vs Privacy Badger?
Or is it comparing apples and oranges? I already use Adblock Plus (and HTTPS Everywhere).
Looks like a part of the site CSS didn't get loaded. If a force refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R) doesn't fix this then this is likely because some sort of web filter or an extension like Privacy Badger is blocking too much.
Another possibility is that the wiki's host is just having a hiccup and it should get back to normal in maybe 15 minutes or so.
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From the Privacy Badger FAQ:
>Is Privacy Badger compatible with other extensions, including other adblockers?
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>Privacy Badger is compatible with most extensions. Whether it makes sense to run it with an adblocker or other privacy extensions varies. If you have customized your adblocker settings to block trackers as well, Privacy Badger may be partially redundant (though it may offer advantages like cookie blocking and Facebook/Google/Twitter link cleaning that other tracker blockers do not).
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>If you run extensions like Adblock Plus or Ghostery in their default configurations, Privacy Badger can significantly increase your privacy online. (Adblock does not block invisible trackers by default, Ghostery does not block anything by default.)
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>uBlock Origin is an excellent privacy tool. uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger should work well together. Similar to adblockers, uBlock Origin protects using blacklists. Privacy Badger protects by automatically learning about trackers as you browse, which means Privacy Badger might catch things that uBlock Origin doesn't know about. Privacy Badger will learn about far fewer trackers when used together with uBlock Origin, but that's OK.
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To sum it up, Privacy Badger offers the following benefits that ad blocker extensions normally do not: cookie blocking, invisible trackers blocking, self-learned tracker blocking.
Yep. Just as a start, here's Privacy Badger's page. It's made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the same people who develop HTTPS Everywhere. There's not too much to Decentraleyes; it just tries to cut out the middleman for common files that are normally served through third-party content delivery networks (CDNs).
And Reddit Enhancement Suite has cool features like a night mode and a lot of minor tweaks you can make to tailor Reddit's desktop site to your preferences.
Ad blockers remove or alter advertising content from a webpage, website, or a mobile app. Ads can contain phishing links, malware, pornographic images, irritations such as flashing colours and sound, stealing data and draining data allowances...
Tools e.g.:
- uBlock Origin Plugins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
- Privacy Badger Plugins https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Background: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/10/why-we-use-adblockers-control-exposed-intrusive-advertising
Thanks OP for the reminder.
I'm cancelling my auto-renew for one single, simple reason: The entirety of WCPO.com breaks if you visit it with the EFF's Privacy Badger extension enabled.
I'd like to mention Privacy Badger. Great for dealing with cookies.
ScriptBlock is another good one. Stops any nastiness before it can even start; combine this with a good adblocker and Privacy Badger and nothing gets through. Occasionally breaks a page, but you can unbreak it with two clicks.
Privacy badger is not an ad-blocker. It will block stuff that tracks you.
From their faq. > 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.
The idea is to reward ads that do not track you by allowing them.
I'm a big fan of Self-Destructing Cookies so that I can keep cookies on some sites (e.g. reddit), temporarily keep, or deny for others. Privacy Badger also gives some fine-tune control of scripts and cookies from all of the various domains that load with websites these days.
> I was responding to a comment about cloud storage service.
No you weren't. You were replying to my comment. There is a lot of things in the cloud. If it were just a place to store files, we would be fine.
> If you want to encrypt a chat try tox doesn't take a techie to use it.
But they don't. And you and me installing it isn't going to change that.
The fact is, there is no reasonable way around using privacy abusing cloud services in the world as it actually is, with the people who are actually in it. The only potential technical remedy is Privacy Badger (install it now!), but only for part of the problem. Spying on users simply has to be illegal and companies would be forced to come up with other ways to fund themselves.
Canvas fingerprinting works by exploiting how the HTML5 canvas element works - basically your browser is instructed to create an image and this fingerprint image is used to track you. Because it's baked in to HTML5 it can't be blocked by traditional ad blocking means like AdBlock or similar. Thankfully, the fine people over at the EFF have come up with a plugin that effectively blocks this new tracking method.
The good news is that the 'fingerprint' isn't really all that unique - yet. I'm sure that as this method gains in popularity this will not be the case for much longer.
💬 <code>FORUM</code> Wiki glitch?
> Just letting you know I managed to fix it. I was playing with my add ons on firefox and on Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) I allowed the tracker www.scp-wiki.net to track me and everything is back to normal.
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You could just google it lol. I'll give it a shot, but the links will explain them much better than me:
HTTPS Everywhere makes every url https rather than http (https is encrypted). Most sites these days use https automatically, but not all, and it doesn't hurt to make sure all of them are.
Privacy Badger blocks third party trackers. Essentially makes you invisible to advertisers that, without it, would be secretly tracking you across multiple websites.
Malwarebytes Browser Add-on may or may not be somewhat redundant for me at this point, but I'm not sure. It blocks a lot of stuff. I would suggest just going to the link, it will explain it much better than me.
I used to just go scorched earth NoScript (ScriptSafe) which blocks literally everything, and you have to manually allow items for a website to load. Sounds tedious, and is at first, but the app "learns," so after a while you don't have to do it manually anymore for the most part. It would still break websites though, and you would have to go and enable scripts one by one until the website loaded and by that point it kinds of defeats the purpose since you're enabling scripts when you have no idea what they do anyway. So I stopped using it, and am happy with what I've been using.
From Privacy Badger FAQ: > uBlock Origin is an excellent privacy tool. uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger should work well together. Similar to adblockers, uBlock Origin protects using blacklists. Privacy Badger protects by automatically learning about trackers as you browse, which means Privacy Badger might catch things that uBlock Origin doesn't know about. Privacy Badger will learn about far fewer trackers when used together with uBlock Origin, but that's OK.
It looks like they recently changed their business model, so they are not as bad as they used to be about selling data, but apparently they are planning to introduce ads (“Ghostery Rewards”), which is worse in my opinion. https://www.wired.com/story/ghostery-open-source-new-business-model/
I also prefer Privacy Badger because it is made by the EFF, who isn’t out to make money from it. It also hogs fewer system resources.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
It’s sort of similar to the situation with Adblock Plus and how uBlock Origin is so much better.
Ideias:
Seria muito interessante termos uma extensão de browser para bloquear, especificamente, esta coisa. Para isso é necessário saber como fazem este tracking (o que não deve ser muito difícil de descobrir).
A extensão Privacy Badger da EFF parece-me interessante. Uso em conjugação com o uBlock.
I run no ad-blockers anymore, I do not need them. I am running a rather decent list of domains on my blocklist though.
I do still run Privacy Badger, though. It just kills tracking and is very lightweight.
False. VPNs have limited effect. They primarily are there to protect against man-in-the-middle intrusion rather than local intrusion, such as site trackers... but yes, a VPN isn't a silver bullet.
Couple your VPN with Privacy Badger and you'll have better protection from such things.
Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
>Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
Replace that with PrivacyBadger by the EFF.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Ghostery has links to the advertising industry and (as per the article) you can see where that sort of business leads.
I don't use ad blockers because I want sites that I frequent to get the advertising revenue.
I will ride the down vote elevator all the way down to hell and say this: I think blocking ads from a site you frequent is a dick move. And no, I don't work for a company that relies on advertising revenue so I'm not biased.
That said, I draw the line at being tracked. For that I use Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) from the EFF. I also disable Flash by default.
uso o µblock Origin junto com o privacy badger da EFF. O µbloker é bem leve e o codigo é aberto, dependendo do site eu desligo ele. Minha unica reclamação com o privacy badger é que ele quebra alguns sites de vez em quando, especialmente sites brasileiros por algum motivo, mas dá para desativar ele so com um clique.
Para o youtube eu uso o Magic Actions for Youtube, que alem de tirar os comerciais, ele também adiciona algumas outras funções incluindo um tema escuro para o youtube, é tipo o RES para youtube.
Se o comercial for um banner ou um texto na pagina eu até aceito. Mas ninguém merece quando os comercias começam a fazer barulho ou tocar videos.
Facebook probably spied on you using a tracker cookie. So even if you don't have any Facebook tabs open, if you're 'logged in', Facebook (and others) will track you.
The simple solution is to install Privacy Badger, which is a browser addon made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Also go into your browser's settings and tell it to clear all cookies when you close the browser. Log out of Facebook (and other sites) when not using them. (Actually, that might be futile. I dunno. Those trackers are quite insidious.)
uBlock Origin (moz/chrome) + EFF Privacy Badger is the way to go!
Ghostery is an extension to block trackers from loading on webpages, and blocks many things like this too as a part of that. I personally would recommend Disconnect or (best of all) the EFF's extension Privacy Badger over this, since Ghostery is still proprietary.
Also, donate to the EFF and help them keep fighting for our digital liberties! They're awesome!
I installed this yesterday and find it a little confusing (I swear I'm not an idiot, the implimentation is just weird).
For example, right now when I click it there are several domains listed (Paypal?, Reddit/AWS, imgur?, and google-analytics). For some reason the extension isn't doing anything with these sites except for imgur (it's blocking cookies from imgur) - all the others are automatically set to "unblocked". I can manually move the slider for each one individually to: block cookies, or completely block the tracker.
So many questions. First, why are Paypal and imgur showing up on a reddit self post? Second, why would something that's obviously tracking me (google-analytics) be left completely unblocked while cookies from imgur are being blocked?
I've noticed this on several sites today (I've checked it off and on) - on 99% of the sites everything will be completely unblocked yet I'm sure that on FB something must be tracking me...
I do have "Do not track" enabled in Chrome so that might be pre-empting privacy badger in some way, but I still find it a little confusing.
Oh well, it's Alpha, maybe the final release will include more information about how the extension chooses to treat each domain.
NINJA EDIT: Okay, maybe I am a bit of an idiot. I just clicked on the help "?" in the extension itself and it explains 99% of what I just complained about...
For those on desktop (or Firefox on Android), Privacy Badger by the EFF might be of use. It won't let you opt out as such, but it does block cookies that appear to track you while leaving the mundane ones to do their thing. Works across all websites as well but you can manually disable it for specific cookies or specific sites if you notice any specific issues on one particular site.
Privacy Badger developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation is my favourite extension. Specifically blocks trackers, which includes most ads (given most are just thinly-veiled trackers).
I like it, because it doesn't rely on static lists, but instead "learns" as you browse around the internet. If it finds scripts tracking you in more than a couple places, it adds it to its dynamic list. This is great in a couple ways.
If you want to go hard with ad-blocking, you can add other ad-blockers, and Privacy Badger will play nice with them. Any scripts which make it past the other ad-blockers will be automatically picked up by Privacy Badger and blocked too.
If you just want to block trackers, it's great for that too. After using it for a while, ads which make it through are actually just that: ads. Not thinly-veiled trackers, but ads, helping to pay website running costs. Which is something I consider a good middle-ground. I don't mind ads, as long as they're not intrusive, and they're not actually tracking me. Indeed, that's something I wish more websites would do. Show ads if you have to, to pay for website running costs and such, just don't track me while you're doing it.
No. Why? Just use !g or !sp.
Or use Privacy Badger, it does almost the same (block trackers) as DDG extension.
I'm going to take this opportunity to introduce the Privacy Badger browser plugin.
Its made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the people at the forefront of human rights in the digital age. Its clever, the plugin doesn't block anything at first, but monitors which domains appear to be trying to connect to your browser from multiple different websites, and then blocks those because they are trackers. It continues to learn more the longer you have it, and all of that data is only stored locally, it doesn't phone home. It has a simple traffic light (Green=Allowed, Yellow=Block Cookies, Red=Block Everything) interface that can be easily customized on a per-domain basis.
I called it.
First they'll block tracking, a function typically provided by plugins like EFF's Privacy Badger. Next they will block advertisements. The article doesn't say that but wait and see. It's what users want.
Adapt or die.
How is Privacy Badger different from Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge, or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking. Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products, none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do online.
Is Privacy Badger compatible with other extensions, including other adblockers?
Privacy Badger is compatible with most extensions. Whether it makes sense to run it with an adblocker or other privacy extensions varies. If you have customized your adblocker settings to block trackers as well, Privacy Badger may be partially redundant (though it may offer advantages like cookie blocking and Facebook/Twitter/... link cleaning that other tracker blockers do not).
If you run extensions like Adblock Plus or Ghostery in their default configurations, Privacy Badger can significantly increase your privacy online. (Adblock does not block invisible trackers by default, Ghostery does not block anything by default.)
uBlock Origin is an excellent privacy tool. uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger should work well together. Similar to adblockers, uBlock Origin protects using blacklists. Privacy Badger protects by automatically learning about trackers as you browse, which means Privacy Badger might catch things that uBlock Origin doesn't know about. Privacy Badger will learn about far fewer trackers when used together with uBlock Origin, but that's OK.
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> Just letting you know I managed to fix it. I was playing with my add ons on firefox and on Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) I allowed the tracker www.scp-wiki.net to track me and everything is back to normal.
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Privacy Badger is a good first step that requires no more setting up than installing an add on and shouldnt affect your browsing. It doesnt stop scripts but it does block cookies from domains that appear to be trying to track you.
I like uBlock, in particular the detail of the tool for blocking particular adds.
The only reason I chose Adblock Plus is because Privacy Badger is based on it and I figured there wouldn't be many compatibility issues. Also, I only started to use uBlock Origin one year ago and didn't change it on their computers. But, I'll have it in mind for future installs. I appreciate the recommendation.
Both AVG and Avast have become somewhat intrusive
I dumped AVG long ago for Windows Defender. But really the best anti-virus is your own behavior, don't go to suspect sites, use ad-blocking, Ublock Origin is always on my browser along with Privacy Badger.
I don't use AdBlock but I do use an extension called Privacy Badger which will try and block as many tracking cookies from a website as possible and the extension shows you how many trackers were blocked.
I just checked out dallasnews.com and Privacy Badger is reporting that they're blocking 20 trackers!
20 trackers isn't the worst I've seen but it is a lot.
I wonder if dallasnews.com stops those trackers if I subscribe because the unseen tracking cookies are the real asshole design.
Try privacy badger. It's made by the EFF and it doesn't use a list, but analyses websites and blocks shady stuff automatically. It works especially great when combined with uBlock origin. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
I couldn't say any more. I recall some site that I had to whitelist them for on each visit, but that was a while ago and it may just have been one domain that I would grant each visit trying to get it to work without checking if it was genuinely needed. I frequently find things like that which I have marked as trusted to try to get some site working when I haven't done the work to reduce back to a minimum set or left permissions as temp and then re-applied on each visit. I'm lazy that way.
For reference I use NoScript as a first level filter. I also use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger (tracker blocking) from the EFF. I also use their https everywhere as general good practice.
More recently I've started trying out Decentraleyes as an extra layer that doesn't require thought, but haven't had it applied long enough on this setup to say much about it or its interactions with the blocker extensions.
Do not use Ghostery, they are a commercial company that just want to sell your data too.
Instead use Privacy Badger. This is a very user friendly add-on that never broke a site for me, and also never required any input after installation.
Privacy badger is actually developed by EFF, which was an American non-profit organization that fights for your digital rights. Their goal is not to make profit, but to protect your privacy! (They also fight for net-neutrality, etc..)
Pesquisa, muita comunicação online, ajuizamento de ações na justiça americana, e lobby junto aos políticos americanos, além do desenvolvimento de uma extensão de browser que ajuda a manter seus hábitos de navegação um pouco menos expostos.