Noah from EFF writes, “Online tracking has become a pervasive invisible
reality of the modern web. Most sites you load are likely to be full of
ads, tracking pixels, social media share buttons, and other invisible
trackers all harvesting data about your web browsing. These trackers use
cookies and other methods to read unique IDs associated with your
browser, the result being that they record all the sites you visit as
you browse around the internet.”
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This sort of tracking is invisible to most web users, meaning they never
get the option to agree to or opt-out of it. Today EFF has launched the
1.0 version of Privacy Badger, an extension designed to prevent these
trackers from accessing unique info about you and your browsing. Install Privacy Badger to browse the web free of pervasive tracking.“
I’m playing around with this right now and so far I love it.
It’s not going to protect you from every creepy-stalker bit of code that’s watching you on the internet, but it’s certainly putting a dent in the list.
