# Badger

> Automatically learns to block hidden trackers. Made by leading digital rights nonprofit EFF to stop companies from spying on you.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/badger\_badger](https://chrome-stats.com/d/badger_badger)

## Overview

- **ID:** `badger_badger`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Belova Sofiya
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-25
- **First published:** 2025-08-22
- **Size:** 18 KB
- **Data as of:** 2025-10-01
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/badger_badger/)

## Description

Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/f5433e6e384e33b2921d74ea02a8ada23fd2a7a9e1dd4c0382bc0cbb9dbc0864/https%3A//globalprivacycontrol.org/" rel="nofollow">https://globalprivacycontrol.org/</a>) to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/9945620a688bfc1f32e4ecd44d4e6d6006bfb763b04c194293b87fa00acc9446/https%3A//www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track</a>) 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 <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8dd76a580489fb9c5fee04be1f174e70c4bc96206b4a1d1b756da4ef2a42553d/https%3A//privacybadger.org/%23faq" rel="nofollow">https://privacybadger.org/#faq</a>

To get help or to report bugs, email extension-devs@eff.org

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `downloads`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows management of download operations but generally doesn't severely affect security unless misused.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/badger_badger)