New Update Privacy Badger updates

[SumTingWong]

Do I need privacy badger when I have ubo?

 

[oldschool]

Do I need privacy badger when I have ubo?

Not really. PB is just another option for some users, e.g. to use with a browser that has built-in adblocking.

 

[oldschool]

This just in:

sillyjaybird commented Nov 17, 2023

@ghostwords MV2 deprecation slated for June '24. How is MV3 development going?

Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers

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ghostwords commented Nov 17, 2023

It's going! We've been making changes to prepare Privacy Badger for non-persistent background processes, be it an event page (Firefox) or an extension service worker (Chrome). We're now moving content filtering from webRequest to declarativeNetRequest.

Will the proposed Manifest V3 changes to Chrome break Privacy Badger? · Issue #2273 · EFForg/privacybadger

 

[oldschool]

Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers

Today we are introducing Badger Swarm, a new tool for Privacy Badger that runs distributed Badger Sett scans in the cloud. Badger Swarm helps us continue updating and growing Privacy Badger’s tracker knowledge, as well as continue adding new ways of catching trackers. Thanks to continually...

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With the coming 2024 phase-in of MV3 this new feature along with the still-in-development Privacy Badger MV3, it may make sense for some users to run µBOL and Privacy Badger together. I say this with the obvious proviso that we don't know what the MV3 version will look like in terms of features, blocking abilities, etc..

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2023.10.31​

Latest

Highlights:

• Added widget replacement for embedded Tweets. Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful widgets with placeholders. These replacements protect privacy while letting you restore the original widget whenever you want it or need it for the page to function.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish translations

Full changeset: release-2023.9.12...release-2023.10.31

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2023.12.1​

Highlights:

• Improved widget replacement for embedded Tweets
• Fixed blocking WebSocket connections to blocked domains
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Galician translations in Firefox
• Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Greek, Japanese)

Full changeset: release-2023.10.31...release-2023.12.1

 

[oldschool]

Year In Review: Google’s Corporate Paternalism in The Browser

It’s a big year for the oozing creep of corporate paternalism and ad-tracking technology online. Google and its subsidiary companies have tightened their grips on the throat of internet innovation, all while employing the now familiar tactic of marketing these things as beneficial for users. Here...

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[oldschool]

Apparently, Privacy Badger has uncloaked and blocked CNAME trackers since v. 2021.6.8. I must have missed this previously.
Release Privacy Badger 2021.6.8 · EFForg/privacybadger

ghostwords commented 1 hour ago •
We use CNAME mapping lists from AdGuard to "uncloak" CNAME trackers in all browsers as of Privacy Badger version 2021.6.8.

CNAME cloaking / Forter tracking · Issue #926 · EFForg/privacybadger

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024-2-6

Highlights:

• Fixed timing issue that could lead to incomplete or empty tracker data on installation in Firefox
• Fixed various UI display issues
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2023.12.1...release-2024.2.6

 

[simmerskool]

Privacy Badger 2024-2-6

...and it apparently autoupdates itself as that's the version I'm finding here.

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024.5.17

Highlights:

• Updated "share" buttons on the new user welcome page: added button for Mastodon; fixed Facebook and X (Twitter) buttons
• Unbroke X.com and a few other sites
• Improved translations (Greek, Hebrew)

Full changeset: release-2024.2.6...release-2024.5.17

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024-5-27

This is a bug fix update to restore access to Cloudflare-protected sites for users who enabled local tracker learning.

Full changeset: release-2024.5.17...release-2024.5.27

 

[oldschool]

News about Privacy Badger MV3 development:

Privacy Badger version 2024.5.30 is live in Chrome Web Store. You can get get this update now by visiting chrome://extensions/, enabling "Developer mode", and clicking the "Update" button.

Producing this version took months of running to stay in place. MV3-based Privacy Badger is not a "lite" version of Privacy Badger. It is functionally similar to MV2-based Privacy Badger, slightly better in some ways, and worse in other ways, some of which will get fixed over the coming months.

There are a bunch of known bugs and regressions (that I haven't documented yet). More troubling are the bugs that I don't know about yet.

Will the proposed Manifest V3 changes to Chrome break Privacy Badger? · Issue #2273 · EFForg/privacybadger
NB: MV3 version available only in Chrome Web Store version.

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024.6.3

This is a bug fix update to hide the "Privacy Badger failed to initialize" error when it no longer applies.

Full changeset: release-2024.5.31...release-2024.6.3

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024.6.14

Highlights:

• Added a note to Privacy Badger's popup on YouTube. YouTube not loading? Ads not blocked? For answers, visit the FAQ.
• Drastically improved Privacy Badger's loading on Chrome startup when Chrome is set to reopen previously opened tabs
• Fixed Privacy Badger forgetting your settings on startup (by retrying reading from extension storage when reading fails for whatever reason)
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Esperanto, Polish)

Full changeset: release-2024.6.3...release-2024.6.14

 

[oldschool]

Privacy Badger 2024.7.17

Highlights:

Disabled Google's "Privacy Sandbox" ad tracking by default. We previously disabled Google's Topics API; we now also disable "site-suggested ads" (ad targeting) and "ad measurement" (ad attribution reporting) APIs.
Improved widget replacement for Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitch and YouTube embeds. To try out our widget replacement for YouTube embeds, move the toggle for youtube.com to red (full blocking).
Updated the new user welcome page to ask Chrome users to pin Privacy Badger to the browser toolbar
Fixed various site breakages
Improved Esperanto, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish translations. Removed Arabic and Bulgarian translations due to lack of updates.

Release Privacy Badger 2024.7.17 · EFForg/privacybadger