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<\/a>How Privacy Badger works<\/h2>\nWhen you visit most websites, it may appear like the entire page is from a single source, but typically there are many components of a page that are delivered by third parties. For instance, the comments section of a news article may be powered by an entirely different company, embedded images might be sourced from elsewhere, or advertising may be delivered from a third-party ad network. If these third-party sources appear to secretly track your browser actions across other websites, Privacy Badger recognizes this behavior and puts a stop to it.<\/p>\n
While Privacy Badger isn\u2019t an ad blocker by design, the extension will naturally block any ad it finds to possess sneaky trackers.<\/p>\n
Privacy Badger works in a distinctly different way than Firefox\u2019s built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection<\/a>, so you can use them together as complementary safeguards. Firefox\u2019s ETP utilizes a list method<\/a> to block known trackers (i.e. it scans websites for trackers on its list), while Privacy Badger employs an algorithmic approach that \u201cdiscovers trackers as you browse the web,\u201d says Alexei, a senior staff technologist at EFF. \u201cThis means Privacy Badger can learn to block trackers that list-based blockers don’t know about. Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger removes outgoing link click-tracking on Facebook, Google, and Twitter, with more privacy protections on the way.\u201d<\/p>\nPrivacy Badger<\/i><\/a> is part of Firefox\u2019s <\/i>Recommended Extensions<\/i><\/a> program. It also works great on <\/i>Firefox for Android<\/i><\/a>. <\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People can\u2019t be expected to understand all of the technically complex ways their online behavior is tracked by hidden entities. As you casually surf the web, there are countless techniques different third party actors use to secretly track your online movement. So how are we supposed to protect our privacy online if we don\u2019t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":53175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462006,30],"tags":[447039],"coauthors":[290436],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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Privacy Badger<\/i><\/a> is part of Firefox\u2019s <\/i>Recommended Extensions<\/i><\/a> program. It also works great on <\/i>Firefox for Android<\/i><\/a>. <\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People can\u2019t be expected to understand all of the technically complex ways their online behavior is tracked by hidden entities. As you casually surf the web, there are countless techniques different third party actors use to secretly track your online movement. So how are we supposed to protect our privacy online if we don\u2019t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":53175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462006,30],"tags":[447039],"coauthors":[290436],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n