Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it’s like you suddenly disappeared.
Privacy Badger has the following features built-in:
- Blocked cookies are kept track of even if they are removed from the browser
- Only tracking from third-party websites is blocked, not first party
- The only cookies disallowed are those that have tracking IDs
- The software can also work in Incognito or Private mode but takes longer to learn and pick up tracking
- Domains can be whitelisted
- Tracking domains may be removed or added by the user
- Export and import settings
When you view a webpage, that page will often be made up of content from many different sources. (For example, a news webpage might load the actual article from the news company, ads from an ad company, and the comments section from a different company that’s been contracted out to provide that service.) Privacy Badger keeps track of all of this. If as you browse the web, the same source seems to be tracking your browser across different websites, then Privacy Badger springs into action, telling your browser not to load any more content from that source. And when your browser stops loading content from a source, that source can no longer track you. Voila!
How to Install the Extension
Installing the latest version of the software is straightforward. It is as simple as heading to the website and clicking on the Install button.
