Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
What is Privacy Badger?
Privacy Badger is a popular Edge add-on by Electronic Frontier Foundation. This add-on has 263,562 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.90, and is most similar to Black Menu for Google™ and G App Launcher (Shortcuts for Google™). The latest version, 2023.1.31, was updated 2 months ago.
Stats
- tabs
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
- webNavigation
- webRequest
- webRequestBlocking
- storage
- privacy
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Summary
Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior. 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 your wishes, 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 athttps://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 athttps://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues
Safety
Risk impact
Privacy Badger requires a lot of risky permissions and is not safe to use. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.
Risk likelihood
Privacy Badger is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
Risk likelihood measures the probability that an Edge add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Edge add-on reputation on Edge Add-on Store, the amount of time the Edge add-on has been around, and other signals about the Edge add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing an Edge add-on, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.
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