Privacy Badger

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

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‪400,000+‬ Users
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Electronic Frontier Foundation

(118)

‪400,000+‬ Users
Productivity

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Description

Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal (https://globalprivacycontrol.org/) to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal (https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track) to tell companies not to track you. If trackers ignore these signals, Privacy Badger will learn to block them.

Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful trackers (video players, comments widgets, etc.) with click-to-activate placeholders, and removes outgoing link click tracking on Facebook and Google, with more privacy protections on the way.

To learn more, see our FAQ at https://privacybadger.org/#faq

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 at https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues

User reviews

Kelson

Mar 28, 2025
Tracking protection add-on that also converts embedded media to placeholders, and adds support for GPC (the automatic "don't sell my data" flag). (It used to detect new trackers automatically, but had to stop when someone figured out how to track using *that*, so it uses a pre-generated list now unless you *really* want to turn learning back on.)

Bobby

May 31, 2024
Nothing but a headache! Constantly fails to load on Edge (windows 10 PC) and now I constantly get error that "Privacy Badger failed to initialize". ENOUGH of this mess. Bye bye badger.

Response from Electronic Frontier Foundation

Jun 27, 2024
Update: This problem should be fixed as of Privacy Badger version 2024.6.14. Hi Bobby, we're working on fixing this problem. I want to help you but the reviews page is not the right place. To get help in the future, please email extension-devs@eff.org

McGarrity,

Apr 17, 2024
Hands down one of the quintessential extensions you MUST install no matter what! This cuts out all that advertising BS you have skillfully learned to ignore, so you can focus on the content you really wanted to see. Bye bye clickbait advertising, and if something "breaks", then it's super easy to turn off for one site, or even adjust as necessary. No real skill required. The EFF is a super legit foundation at the forefront of internet security and privacy, so there's nothing to hesitate when thinking about installing an ad blocker, especially since it's so much more than that.
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