Reviews for Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger by EFF Technologists
2,612 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13306618, 7 years agoI have a Pi-hole attached to my router which blocks a lot of ad-serving sites, trackers and malware sites.
I thought I had things covered pretty good, but when I started using Privacy Badger it still finds some trackers to block.
Great job EFF, thank you!
Now my only wish is that you make this available for MS Edge. I still prefer the lean-and-clean minimalistic approach of Edge over Firefox, but for privacy reasons (cookies management and Privacy Badger) I moved to Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by hjoseph7, 7 years agoWorks great in Chrome not, so great but good in Firefox. Does not slow down my browser at all. I think it also blocks some pop-up ads, but not all. Too bad MSN is not jumping on the bad wagon..
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sion, 7 years agoHow does Privacy Badger interact with things like uBlock Origin & Ghostery?
Do their functions collide with Privacy Badger (PB), like they block something before PB can analyze it?Developer response
posted 7 years agoPrivacy Badger should work well in combination with other blocking add-ons. The major difference between using Badger on its own and using Badger with other blockers is that your Badger will learn to block far fewer domains when used with other blockers. This is fine: Privacy Badger will be there to catch whatever the list-based blockers let through.
To get answers to Privacy Badger questions, please visit our GitHub issue tracker at github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues, or just email info@eff.org. - Rated 5 out of 5by Wok, 7 years agoThis addon is very disappointing. I cannot give the reason why in this space because my reviews have already been deleted twice by the moderators. Just benchmark the addon for your Internet uses with uBO-Scope and see what is not blocked despite training Privacy Badger for weeks.
Edit: I update the score to positive, because the Google Analytics issue is fixed:
https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/574#issuecomment-510036366Developer response
posted 7 years agoWok, I understand you are frustrated with Privacy Badger not doing something you think it should. If this is about Privacy Badger not learning to block Google Analytics, we have an open issue for this problem, which I think you already discovered: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/367. We just haven't had a chance to look into it yet. If you'd like this issue to get more attention, please leave a comment there, or send an email to info@eff.org. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12761363, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13192564, 7 years agoThe great difference between Privacy badger and other blockers is that it learns what follows me on the internet and blocks it on every website.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13040017, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13006668, 7 years agoExcellent! Use this and adblock on my laptop and it works very well!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Extarys, 7 years agoFirst, I would like to thank EFF for this add-on.
The GUI would need some work, it looks 1995.
it doesn't block "everything" I prefer to block all Google stuff that I cannot block in my router but this doesn't block youtube ads and ads spies on you ;) (i know this is for privacy but ads on youtube makes so many ajax calls its ridiculous - and we know Google love knowing everything)
4/5 I would recommend but need another extension to fully satisfy my intense browsing
Maybe add a opt-out feature for ads that tracks us - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13241493, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dark_Ronius, 7 years agoAdd-on, for me, largely replaces the old Ghostery add-on (which no longer blocks cookies or apparently much at all really). The traffic light system is insanely simple to understand, and makes it quick and easy to fine-tune your experience. It would be great if you could combine a filterlist with it so you have instant, out of the box protection without having to install an ad-blocker. It would also be great if it provided some indicator on why it considers a url to be tracking you- a hit count for each attempted access, for example, or even just make the title text for each site a darker font (and vice versa).
Also, I know they have done it for a while now, but I respect EFF for finally producing their Add-Ons on the official Firefox repository... Although they probably didn't have a choice with it impossible to install unsigned add ons now on anything but the Developer version of the browser. I feel this is what EFF should have done all along, to counter clones appearing instead, along with maybe a warning about Firefox's policies. Although I'm in support of the reasons EFF declined to upload add-ons like https Everywhere for such a long time, for me the ultimate aim of getting the protection offered to as many users as possible probably should have been the more important focus? - Rated 5 out of 5by J. Alberto Benitez, 7 years agoMuchas Gracias nos ayuda a comunicarnos mejor, que buena idea del desarrollador.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alabhya Jindal, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12949063, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13213392, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12623088, 7 years agoTo all the fools here who underrate this add-on on the basis that it doesn't block some ads - you need to read the description before posting your ignorant crap in reviews. This is NOT an ad blocker, and it doesn't claim to block all kinds of ads. Stop whining that it is not something it never claimed to be in the first place.
That's like underrating a smartphone because it doesn't work well as a hammer. It's stupid and ignorant.
I would suggest to the developer to make it even more obvious that this is not meant to replace a conventional ad-blocker. Maybe put that in CAPS in the description for all the lazy users.
Great tool btw! :-) - Rated 4 out of 5by shgysk8zer0, 7 years agoToo many want to compare this to AdBlock, but they are very different things. This is not intended to block ads, and AdBlock is not intended to protect your privacy. This blocks cookies and/or content from being loaded from third-parties if that third party appears to be tracking you on multiple sites. That happens to have the effect of blocking some ads, but it also blocks analytics, Like/Tweet buttons, tracking pixels, etc.
Would be nice to have controls per content-type. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 11796372, 7 years agoPrivacy Badger protects you only from spying ads and invisible trackers. If you want to be protected also from all kinds of ads including an anti-adblock killer, want to use famous filter lists like EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's Ad Server list, and many filters for malware protection, want cosmetic filter, an element picker for pushing away things you don't want to see anymore and to make your own filter rules, want a filter against obtrusive cookie notices, want an ad blocker with very low use of CPU and memory, than you have to take uBlock Origin
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13169440, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13136012, 8 years agoEffectively blocks tracking domains and cookies. Didn't find it to interfere at all with my browsing, nor did it break any site I visited.
Being developed and updated by the EFF is a trust warranty, as opposed to other alternatives.
As it is a really non-intrusive and effective addon, I would recommend it for any firefox user, independently of their knowledge level. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12828685, 8 years agoEasy to manage, easy to control, and it works well for sites which break if you disable their add tracking by simply allowing the content but blocking its cookies.
This is your one-stop-shop for privacy (that and HTTPS Everywhere).