Is Privacy Badger safe?
Automatically learns to block hidden trackers while sending privacy preference signals.
This extension sends Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals on websites and learns to block trackers that ignore them. It can replace some tracker-based features, such as video players or comment widgets, with click-to-activate placeholders, and it removes outgoing link click tracking on Facebook and Google. Its permissions allow it to work across websites and manage web requests, navigation, tabs, privacy settings, and stored settings.
Who publishes itEFF Technologists - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
EFF Technologists - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 6 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Privacy Badger contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- www.google.comwidely used
Privacy Badger sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 169 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- docs.google.com
Privacy Badger sends data to docs.google.com. 23 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- mail.google.com
Privacy Badger sends data to mail.google.com. 17 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- facebook.com
Privacy Badger sends data to facebook.com. 9 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- facebookcorewwwi.onion
Privacy Badger sends data to facebookcorewwwi.onion. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- messenger.com
Privacy Badger sends data to messenger.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.