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Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web. Privacy Badger sends the Do Not Track signal with your browsing. If trackers ignore your wishes, your Badger will learn to block them.

Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger 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


*** 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


*** Release notes ***

2020.7.21
* Improved broken site reporting screen in the popup
* Refreshed the look of options page tabs
* Fixed various site breakages
* Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Danish, European Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish)

2020.6.29
* Added replacement placeholder for Disqus comments widgets
* Fixed domain sliders on the options page not saving in some cases
* Fixed slider changes on the options page resetting the list of domains, causing you to lose your place if you were scrolled down
* Fixed domain slider tooltip display
* Re-enabled custom tooltips in Firefox
* Fixed various site breakages
* Improved translations (Esperanto, Hebrew, Ukrainian)

2020.6.2
* Added replacement placeholders for Facebook Comments/Video and Twitch Player
* Removed Twitter link unwrapping. We are unable to unwrap t.co links on Twitter at this time, as the original URL is no longer present in the Twitter website's document structure.
* Fixed various site breakages
* Improved translations (Hebrew, Polish, Swedish)