[bobsky]

Nice. It works well with other extensions i.e. adblockers - Privacy Badger can significantly increase your privacy online because Adblock does not block invisible trackers by default; via FAQ.

Another fantastic extension from the EFF team with collaboration from The Tor Project, is HTTPS Everywhere, get it here https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[mtgx]

Is Privacy Badger still necessary for people that already use ublock and its own tracking filters?

[pde3]

ublock is great software (it didn't exist when we started work on PB!) and so there are only a few things PB will catch that it doesn't. But there are some. For instance, PB will replace widgets such as Tweet and Facebook like buttons with locally hosted, non-tracking variants. And PB may catch new trackers faster than ublock because it uses algorithmic detection rather than requiring a blocklist.

[shkkmo]

You can use Privacy Badger on sites that you want to support with ad views (as long as those adds don't track you).

A good example of this is many of the webcomics I read. Many of the adds on those sites are for other webcomics, I've found a couple of good new webcomics that way.

[bitJericho]

Much better to simply buy their merchandise instead.

[bitJericho]

Yes. I use both ublock origin and privacy badger and for the majority of sites both plugins detect and block stuff.

[blinkingled]

Any idea what's the difference between Privacy Badger and Self Destructing Cookies addon? I would think SDC will also stop any tracking by deleting the cookies?

[swartzcr]

Privacy Badger currently detects tracking via regular cookies, HTML5 local storage 'cookies', and canvas fingerprinting, with more methods aimed to be supported in future releases

[mirimir]

What other tracking methods does Privacy Badger plan to block in future releases? One can always test against evercookie.[0] And perhaps EFF could host a trustable demo site, along the lines of Panopticlick. I do get that this is an arms race, and that proprietary methods may be running under the radar, as Verizon's UIDH did for two years.[1]

[0] https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_c...

[pde3]

As many as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :)

Good starting places for the current heuristics:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

[aidenn0]

It won't currently block most of the evercookie tests, since it currently only targets 3rd-party tracking.