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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by StavrosK on Friday August 07, 2015 @02:23AM (#10021146)
I got a new computer and was browsing around, and it seemed that the entire web suddenly got much slower and ad-ridden. It was horrible, until I remembered I forgot to install Ghostery.

Why do you use both, though? Aren't they pretty much perfectly overlapping?

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Re:Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers by at-fates-hands on Friday August 07, 2015 @10:51AM (#10022779)
They do, albeit in different ways. I use them both since there's stuff that Ghostery misses that Privacy Badger picks up and vice versa.

Plus with Privacy Badger, it gets better the longer you use it:

The salient difference between Privacy Badger and the other extensions is that Privacy Badger’s blacklist is generated through heuristic blocking, which means it gets better the longer it is used. Out of the box, Privacy Badger won’t block nearly as many third-party requests as the commercial options, but as you use it more, it will learn more and more hosts to block

https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-sa...

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