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Stats Home Assistant Home Assistant Privacy Badger Privacy Badger
User count 8,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.83 4.42
Rating count 30 1,715
Last updated 2024-02-21 2024-02-06
Size 81.57K 1.90M
Version 0.5.0 2024.2.6
Short description
A quick shortcut to your Home Assistant Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Full summary

Unofficial extension to quickly access your Home Assistant dashboard from everywhere

=== Setup ===

Open your configuration.yaml file and add the following lines, then restart Home Assistant. http: use_x_frame_options: false

In your Lovelace dashboard, create a new view and add a few cards that you want to see in your extension

Here are a few tips:

  • If you have only one card, activate the "panel mode" option for a better look
  • If you want to match your browser color scheme, you can choose a specific theme just for this view
  • You can completely hide the view if you don't want it to show in your existing dashboard, it won't affect the extension
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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 to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal 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 at https://privacybadger.org/#faq

To get help or to report bugs, please email [email protected]. If you have a GitHub account, you can use our GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues

*** Why does Privacy Badger need to read and change all my data on the websites I visit? ***

When you install Privacy Badger, your browser warns that Privacy Badger can “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”. You are right to be alarmed. You should only install extensions made by organizations you trust.

Privacy Badger requires these permissions to do its job of automatically detecting and blocking trackers on all websites you visit. We are not ironically (or unironically) spying on you. For more information, see our Privacy Badger extension permissions explainer: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/permissions.md

Note that the extension permissions warnings only cover what the extension has access to, not what the extension actually does with what it has access to (such as whether the extension secretly uploads your browsing data to its servers). Privacy Badger will never share data about your browsing unless you choose to share it (by filing a broken site report). For more information, see EFF’s Privacy Policy for Software: https://www.eff.org/code/privacy/policy