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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by blinkingled on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:12PM (#10017875)
Any idea what's the difference between Privacy Badger and Self Destructing Cookies addon? I would think SDC will also stop any tracking by deleting the cookies?
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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by swartzcr on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:14PM (#10017886)
Privacy Badger currently detects tracking via regular cookies, HTML5 local storage 'cookies', and canvas fingerprinting, with more methods aimed to be supported in future releases
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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by mirimir on Thursday August 06, 2015 @02:03PM (#10018213)
What other tracking methods does Privacy Badger plan to block in future releases? One can always test against evercookie.[0] And perhaps EFF could host a trustable demo site, along the lines of Panopticlick. I do get that this is an arms race, and that proprietary methods may be running under the radar, as Verizon's UIDH did for two years.[1]

[0] https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_c...

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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by pde3 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:24PM (#10018759)
As many as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :)

Good starting places for the current heuristics:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by aidenn0 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @05:08PM (#10019458)
It won't currently block most of the evercookie tests, since it currently only targets 3rd-party tracking.
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