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Re:Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension f... by SudoNick on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:49PM (#7687080)
In order to be effective against the numerous tracking techniques that are in use, the extension MUST block requests. If you aren't breaking many popular websites as a result of blocking their third party requests then it is your own privacy that gets broken. So this concerns me:

"In some cases a third-party domain provides some important aspect of a page's functionality, such as embedded maps, images, or fonts. In those cases, Privacy Badger will allow connections to the third party but will screen out its tracking cookies."

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Re:Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension f... by unhush on Friday May 02, 2014 @03:26PM (#7687612)
To clarify, those cases where we block cookies but not requests entirely are the sites on this whitelist: https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist.txt

This pull request will also apply the whitelisting to subdomains of the domains on the whitelist: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63.

Unfortunately blocking all those sites and making users whitelist them manually is a lot of work for most users. So we ship a whitelist.

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