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by SudoNick 4427 days ago
In order to be effective against the numerous tracking techniques that are in use, the extension MUST block requests. If you aren't breaking many popular websites as a result of blocking their third party requests then it is your own privacy that gets broken. So this concerns me:

"In some cases a third-party domain provides some important aspect of a page's functionality, such as embedded maps, images, or fonts. In those cases, Privacy Badger will allow connections to the third party but will screen out its tracking cookies."

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To clarify, those cases where we block cookies but not requests entirely are the sites on this whitelist: https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist.txt

This pull request will also apply the whitelisting to subdomains of the domains on the whitelist: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63.

Unfortunately blocking all those sites and making users whitelist them manually is a lot of work for most users. So we ship a whitelist.