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Title: EFF's tracker-smashing Privacy Badger exits beta Post by: HCK on August 09, 2015, 03:00:16 pm EFF's tracker-smashing Privacy Badger exits beta
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently announced that its tracker-munching browser add-on is ready for prime time. Privacy Badger version 1.0 (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) is available now for Chrome and Firefox. The add-on was released as a public alpha in May 2014 (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150823/eff-introduces-privacy-badger-to-destroy-third-party-tracking-online.html) and hit beta (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456500/eff-releases-chrome-firefox-plugin-to-block-thirdparty-tracking.html) about two months later.</p><p> The new release adds a few extra features, including the ability to block select, unspecified “super-cookies,” as well as the ability to block browser fingerprinting. If you’ve never heard of the latter, it’s a common trick used to track users by collecting various facts about your system such as browser type, installed plugins, time zone, and screen resolution and depth, among others. Individually, those features may not be particularly revealing, but in combination they tend to allow for unique identification.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2961068/privacy/eff-tracker-smashing-privacy-badger-exits-beta.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: EFF's tracker-smashing Privacy Badger exits beta (http://www.macworld.com/article/2961068/privacy/eff-tracker-smashing-privacy-badger-exits-beta.html#tk.rss_all) |