Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
by mtgx on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:24PM
(#10017951)
Is Privacy Badger still necessary for people that already use ublock and its own tracking filters?
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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
by pde3 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:00PM
(#10019002)
ublock is great software (it didn't exist when we started work on PB!) and so there are only a few things PB will catch that it doesn't. But there are some. For instance, PB will replace widgets such as Tweet and Facebook like buttons with locally hosted, non-tracking variants. And PB may catch new trackers faster than ublock because it uses algorithmic detection rather than requiring a blocklist.
Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
by shkkmo on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:56PM
(#10018158)
You can use Privacy Badger on sites that you want to support with ad views (as long as those adds don't track you).
A good example of this is many of the webcomics I read. Many of the adds on those sites are for other webcomics, I've found a couple of good new webcomics that way.
Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
by bitJericho on Friday August 07, 2015 @01:27AM
(#10021030)
Much better to simply buy their merchandise instead.
Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
by bitJericho on Thursday August 06, 2015 @02:37PM
(#10018441)
Yes. I use both ublock origin and privacy badger and for the majority of sites both plugins detect and block stuff.