New Update Privacy Badger updates

Privacy Badger has a much more robust automated collection of trackers AND checking for website breakage and correcting that. When you like uBol very much, just disable the privacy filter and Peter Low's filter when you use it together with Privacy Badger (most is DNR based so the Chromium based browser does most of the work).

Explanation of ChatGPT

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Pivacy Badger's approach of creating tracking filters prevents all the disadvantages of long lists mentioned by Kees1958 on Github and Peter Low on his website. You can also use it besides AdGuard and disable AG's privacy filter. It is basically the best of both worlds (broad coverage of long lists, no website breakage of narrow lists).
I'm curious because I switched from uBol to Privacy Badger on my Microsoft Edge browser (since I only use it to check my emails and LinkedIn, so there aren't many ads to block), and it blocked over 3500 trackers in two days (altogether, nearly an hour on Microsoft Edge), and the experience was way faster. 👍
 
I'm curious because I switched from uBol to Privacy Badger on my Microsoft Edge browser (since I only use it to check my emails and LinkedIn, so there aren't many ads to block), and it blocked over 3500 trackers in two days (altogether, nearly an hour on Microsoft Edge), and the experience was way faster. 👍

PB blocks third-party trackers; it rarely blocks first-party trackers for compatibility reasons, but it has the capability to do so.
uBoL blocks third-party trackers using certain subscribed filter lists, but it does not block all first-party trackers.

To increase the likelihood of blocking trackers, you need to enable the “Medium mode” dynamic filtering in uBoL, and to achieve certain levels of blocking, you may also need to use some custom DNR rules.

In this case, uBoL’s total tracker-blocking capability exceeds that achievable with PB.
However, it should be noted that it is very difficult—for both the average user and even the advanced user—to use uBoL in Medium mode along with any custom DNR rules due to the lack of a log.

I can do this partially in Chrome because I know how to use the browser’s developer tools.
With Firefox, it would be impossible because uBoL in Firefox does not display the blocked elements counter.

Also note that the PB counter appears to block trackers exclusively (but this is not the case); trackers can also be blocked solely by Edge’s built-in tracker-blocking feature.

To properly evaluate this feature of PB, you need to run tests using Firefox and the browser’s developer tools.
In Firefox, blocked trackers are listed more clearly than in Chromium-based browsers.
 
Release Privacy Badger 2026.6.16 · EFForg/privacybadger

Privacy Badger 2026.6.16​


Highlights:

  • Updated the new user welcome page to better explain how to disable Privacy Badger on a site. Redesigned pinning instructions in Chrome to become a part of learning about the "Disable for this site" button.
  • Added a new way to support Privacy Badger (with a sweatshirt!) to the popup, shown sometimes instead of existing "donate" and "leave a review" links. Also added a link to subscribe to privacy news ("EFFector").
  • Fixed hang on the Tracking Domains tab for screen reader users. This also improves options page performance for all users.
  • Improved keyboard navigation of tracking domains on the options page
  • Fixed various site breakages
  • Improved Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Swedish and Ukrainian translations. Removed Czech and Korean translations due to lack of updates.
Full changeset: release-2026.2.20...release-2026.6.16
 
There’s an adblock test online,though I have no idea how reliable it is,that lets you quickly check the difference in the number of blocked domains between your adblocker and when using Privacy Badger.

Adblock Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker, VPN or DNS Blocks Ads

It all seems perfect.:unsure::unsure:

But if you run the tests with Firefox and a Chromium-based browser, you’ll get different results even when blocking with PB.
Maybe because Firefox has a built-in tracker-blocking feature?

Yes and no.........:unsure:

I also tried checking which domains are blocked and which aren’t by PB using ChatGPT.
And some of them might cause incompatibilities.

In the end, I decided against adding rules to my ad blocker that seem to be blocked exclusively by PB in the test.

Anyway, all of this might be interesting and/or cause a lot of confusion for some of you.;)

Please forgive me.

P.S.

If nothing else, it's one of the very few online ad-blocking tests that seems to work with Firefox.:rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 
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There’s an adblock test online,though I have no idea how reliable it is,that lets you quickly check the difference in the number of blocked domains between your adblocker and when using Privacy Badger.

Adblock Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker, VPN or DNS Blocks Ads
Test is okay, but they present some legit domains as advertising domains. If you block them, you break hella lot of websites.

For example:
dai.google.com is a Google's video streaming domain.
connect.facebook.net when blocked breaks video embeds from Facebook.
redirector.googlevideo.com is used by YouTube for determining nearest streaming server.
 

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