[aspidistra]

To be fair to EFF, it is explicit about what it considers that strong commitment to be: publishing this DNT policy notice on the domain:

https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy

Quote:

What does the dnt-policy.txt promise mean?

Posting the dnt-policy.txt file makes a promise to the users who interact with their domain. We [EFF] believe it would be a false and misleading trade practice to post the policy without the intent to comply in good faith. However, EFF is not in a position to enforce this promise or monitor compliance.

[unhush]

There is code in Privacy Badger that checks whether a site has publicly posted a statement of compliance with DNT before blocking it. If they do and then violate that commitment, we have a record of it and can call them out on it.

[DerpDerpDerp]

Can you still configure the plugin (manually) to not trust such sites?

I don't want it to be a negotiation between the EFF and a website as to the state of my privacy - I want the final say in who is going to be trusted.

[aspidistra]

As I understand it, yes, you would still have final control.

When you click on the plugin icon in the browser toolbar, a popup box displays all the trackers Privacy Badger has found. There is a slider next to each tracker, with three states, green, yellow and red. Red means blocked.

As Privacy Badger works, it moves the slider for a tracker when it notices it following you across domains. But you can still manually drag the slider across to Red if you want.