Privacy Badger

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Privacy Badger

Blocks invisible trackers, in order to stop advertisers and other third-parties from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at. Download: Chrome - Firefox

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Privacy Badger Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Summary

  • Your data is processed and stored in a country that is less friendly to user privacy protection (USA)
  • Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
  • Third-party cookies are used for statistics
  • The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users
  • The terms for this service are translated into different languages
  • Other applicable rules, terms, conditions or guidelines
  • Your personal data is not sold
  • Information is provided about what kind of information they collect
  • Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
  • Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes
  • The data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes
  • Your personal data is aggregated into statistics
  • This service tracks which web page referred you to it
  • Only necessary logs are kept by the service to ensure quality
  • First-party cookies are used
  • A list of all cookies set by the website is provided
  • Extra data may be collected about you through promotions
  • Information is provided about how your personal data is used
  • Third parties are involved in operating the service
  • This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation
  • Third parties used by the service are bound by confidentiality obligations
  • This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not essential to its operation
  • Your information is only shared with third parties when given specific consent
  • You are being tracked via social media cookies/pixels
  • This service assumes no responsibility and liability for the contents of links to other websites
  • The service informs you that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites
  • The service promises to inform and/or notify you regarding government inquiries that may involve your personal data
  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data
  • You can opt out of promotional communications
  • A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data
  • The terms may be changed at any time, but you will receive notification of the changes
  • This Service provides a list of Third Parties involved in its operation.
  • Archives of their agreements are provided so that changes can be viewed over time
  • There is a date of the last update of the agreements

Score

B

Documents

Domains Covered by Policy

  • eff.org
  • privacybadger.org
  • starttls-everywhere.org
  • atlasofsurveillance.org
  • openwireless.org

About the Data

This data is kindly provided by tosdr.org. Read full report at: #682

Privacy Badger Source Code

Author

EFForg

Description

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block hidden trackers

#browser-fingerprinting#chrome-extension#cookies#fingerprinting#firefox-extension#javascript#privacy#tracking#webextension

Homepage

https://privacybadger.org

License

NOASSERTION

Created

10 Jul 13

Last Updated

08 Jun 26

Latest version

release-2026.2.20

Primary Language

JavaScript

Size

58,248 KB

Stars

3,749

Forks

426

Watchers

3,749

Language Usage

Language Usage

Star History

Star History

Top Contributors

Recent Commits

  • Alexei (08 Jun 26)

    Update Arabic locale from Transifex

  • Alexei (08 Jun 26)

    Remove MV3-specific (for now) assertions

  • Alexei (08 Jun 26)

    Expand test coverage for CDN-hosted fingerprinters

  • Alexei (03 Jun 26)

    Make popupPromos optional in popup config So that when we don't provide it in popup corner cases, there is no error (we still get the default Donate promo).

  • Alexei (03 Jun 26)

    Get new message translations from Transifex

  • Alexei (02 Jun 26)

    Add a few cache-related workarounds for Ff Nightly

  • Alexei (02 Jun 26)

    Add test for frozen Error canvas fp. variant

  • Alexei (02 Jun 26)

    Fix canvas fp. detection in Ff Nightly redux

  • Alexei (01 Jun 26)

    Get new message translations from Transifex

  • Alexei (29 May 26)

    Fix typo

  • Alexei (29 May 26)

    Restore redirect to service worker navigation test

  • Alexei (28 May 26)

    Get new message translations from Transifex

  • Alexei (28 May 26)

    Gold cart for sweatshirt

  • lenacohen (28 May 26)

    Fix header text overlap on welcome page With certain locales and screen sizes.

  • Alexei (28 May 26)

    Update npm package lock file

  • Alexei (28 May 26)

    Sync locales with source locale

  • lenacohen (28 May 26)

    Add sweatshirt promo to popup

  • Alexei (27 May 26)

    Fix canvas fingerprinting detection in Ff Nightly

  • Alexei (27 May 26)

    Ignore unknown canvas fingerprinting script hosts

  • Alexei (27 May 26)

    Even more welcome page cleanup

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update Simplified Chinese locale from Transifex

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Get new message translations from Transifex

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    More welcome page cleanup

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update npm package lock file

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update ESLint dependency

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update web-ext

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update PSL definitions

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Sync locales with source locale

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Update Swedish locale from Transifex

  • Alexei (26 May 26)

    Remove obsolete welcome page bits

Privacy Badger Security

4.6/10

Repo Security Summary

Updated 25 May 26

  • Maintained 10/10
  • Dangerous-Workflow 10/10
  • Security-Policy 10/10
  • Packaging N/A
  • Code-Review 0/10
  • Token-Permissions 0/10
  • Binary-Artifacts 10/10
  • CII-Best-Practices 0/10
  • Pinned-Dependencies 2/10
  • License 9/10
  • Signed-Releases N/A
  • Branch-Protection 0/10
  • Fuzzing 0/10
  • SAST 0/10

Privacy Badger Website

Website

Privacy Badger

Redirects

Does not redirect

Security Checks

All 65 security checks passed

Server Details

  • IP Address 173.239.79.206
  • Hostname irc.eff.org
  • Location Berkeley, California, United States of America, NA
  • ISP Unwired
  • ASN AS32354

Associated Countries

  • US US

Safety Score

Website marked as safe

100%

Blacklist Check

privacybadger.org was found on 0 blacklists

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API

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The REST API is free, no-auth and CORS-enabled. To learn more, view the API Docs or read the API Usage Guide.

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