Reviews & Comments of Privacy Badger chrome extension

The single best extension for Chrome.

Brilliant! I've been looking for a way to remove the ?fbclid garbage from the end of facebook external links. Works like a charm. (Haven't investigated further yet, but this is a great start, thank you.)

Used to love it... But as of 10/31/2022 it's causing my entire browser to crash constantly! According to Windows Event Viewer: [678576:679600:1031/190114.504:WARNING:chrome_content_verifier_delegate.cc(216)] Corruption detected in extension pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp installed at: Data\Default\Extensions\pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp\2022.9.27_1, from webstore: 1, corruption reason: 1, should be repaired: 0, extension location: kInternal Please fix this crucial extension!

excellent companion to uBlock origin. don't listen to the haters, they all seem to be clueless plebs. thanks eff!

A great extension to enchance your privacy a bit more

Reviews don't know what they are talking about, it breaks many website logins such as google login on Indeed.com and many other websites. Privacy Badger blocks stuff automatically but it is coded in such a way that it breaks many things not just Google stuff but other stuff as well that is needed to make certain functions on a website to run. It needs to be configured to know to not block font.gstatic and many other google trackers as it claims aswell. Unfortunately privacy badger has had this problem for over a year now if not 1+ years and has not been fixed so I would advice to use contentblockhelper extension as that does not block things by default but allows you to choose what to block and it finds every single possible thing on the webpage it even finds the type of font a webpage uses that you disable. What is nice is you can click the black + and then see what is under a certain category and then tap one of the green + of whatever you choose to disable, if you choose to renable what you blocked you then tap the red - to renabled it and then refresh the webpage. Last but not least it remembers all websites changes you made so you never have to redo what you have disabled and/or enabled. Privacy badger is such hot garbage and I would not be surprised if Google owns it and is also making fake reviews on here with 5 stars. Word to the wise: Don't believe many reviews nowadays as most of them are fake including responses from people stating what you wrote isn't true or critiquing you about why you would think that and so forth, I believe these to either be bots or people who are not Knowledgeable about extensions, but not me I know what works and what doesn't by using it, I don't trust people anymore as most of are defiantly lying or they are a bot.

Wow, it actually works. And it works good. It will keep tap of tracking cookies and block them if it finds the same cookie on 3 sites you visit. You still need uBlock Origin to block ads, and you still need audio, canvas and font fingerprinting extensions installed if you hope to stay a little private on the web. A nice vpn like Mullvad is probably not too shabby either.

I just installed on chrome but have been using on Microsoft Edge for a year. I like it because it is seamless and does not popup or bother me while I am browsing. It is effective and learns from what you do so the more you browse the more privacy you get!

This would be great if it worked. Unfortunately, it's been breaking a LOT of sites for me in the past few months. I'm talking like work websites or donation pools. That kind of thing. I'm leaving this review before deleting the extension.

Very useful and intuitive.

all power to the devs behind this extension

Amazing extension, a perfect addition to an ad blocker. A lot of websites these days will block access to their website if they detect an adblocker. With Privacy Badger you'll fly under the radar:-) In general I'm not against ads and understand that websites that provide valuable info need to make money but the tracking of a user across the web has gotten out of control. I'm glad that EFF came up with a solution to stop the madness. Thank you.

It doesn't work at all

One of the best... addon, this is the first addon which i install when I download any browser, along with https everywhere great eff team for creating this addon.... EFF team if you read this review, please say hi to me.... because I will be blessed getting hi, from such great developers

Hi, Please fix google account login on websites. I can login via google account after disabling Privacy Badger, but I cannot login with PB active.

This extention can't detect facebook ads trackers

Every one should use it

Just love it, removes the intrusive and excessive ads. Recommended for good web experience to every user.

I got this extension quite recently, and while it may be doing what it says it is doing I have also had increasing difficulties with a number of basic utilities suddenly not working - particularly sound related. I can no longer listen to previews of audio books in Chirp, and Soundcloud has stopped playing entirely. Seriously, if these basic functions cannot run with PB in place I will have to delete it and take my chances.

works great. but if google is allowing this extension to be on webstore then they must have found a way out to evade the badger and is tracking us.??

Works OK but needs a snooze feature so you can completely disable the extension for a few minutes to use affiliate links. It is a pain to have to turn it off in Chrome and remember to turn it back on.

Many sites content do not load when this extension is activated. please make it less aggressive.

Excelente!! Hace lo que tiene que hacer. Una barrera mas de seguridad y privacidad.

Great extension makes the browser load and render pages so much faster. i think you should make your own adblocker to work along side it that way we can be sure it will be something that won't slow down the page load and render speed.

Any alternatives for Tor Browser. Thanks!

Works great and is easy to set up.

This. Is. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! eff.org why don't you make more good extensions but it doesn't matter! This is really good! And don't forget to install the HTTPS Everywhere!

This is AWESOME. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!! also everybody go to https://www.eff.org/pages/tools and get the other things created by Eff.org they are really good

I don't know witch extension has problems but it's crashing because of (local cdn) again and again in kiwi browser

Great add-on! If it's created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and recommended by PrivacyTools.io, it's good on my book. If you haven't checked them out, they have other solid privacy recommendations.

blocks captcha

Amazing extension

Very good!

Broke more websites than the DuckDuckGo extension or my ad blocker (uBlock) but provides easy and advanced options to personalize how it works. They also take direct feedback to report that the extension broke a website. In general, I'd totally reccommend. Update Nov. 2020: Had to disable it for now as the extension is interfering with Google Login on other sites, I hope they get to fix it soon.

Starting today, this extension is causing a background 10-15 percent CPU utilization on an i7-8700 CPU system running Windows 10 Professional (latest patches), Chrome 86.0.4240.111, and Privacy Badger 2020.10.7. The only thing that was updated yesterday was my nVidia driver. I've always been a fan of this extension, but for now I have to disable it. It runs so much that the current Google Halloween page hangs and becomes unresponsive.

Never had a problem. But now, www.cbs.com sees it a an ad blocker. Since I won't turn Privacy Blocker off, I guess I won't watch CBS until I can work out how to use my Raspberry Pi to get around CBS's algorithms.

I am glad I found this app! Really good extension. The best part is - it's free.

Installed this app and my mac started using a ton of battery. After checking the activity monitor, it showed google chrome draining all its battery. Basically tried to pinpoint the error for days and ended up reseting my whole mac because I was afraid it had virus. After restarting this is the first extension I installed and guess what? After installing Privacy Badger, the draining starts all over again. DONT INSTALL SAVE YOURSELF THE PAIN

It breaks almost all ecommerce sites I visit — images won't load, shipping calculator won't show, sometimes it breaks the entire page, as if the CSS info hadn't been loaded at all. I just got tired of reporting this problem on nearly every single shopping site I go to.

great system.keep it up

Does what it says it will do well beyond my expectations. I appreciate the ability to tailor my experience across all sites I visit. The instant feedback option on sites that do not work well with the app is a great feature that tells me the developers are truly interested in improving their product at all times.

Straight forward to use and efficiently blocks trackers as expected.

Good

It is so powerful

good for privacy

It seems to work pretty well.

EFF EFF EFF! What more do you want, does what it says - dah

If you want the web to not work right, then this is the tool to achieve that goal. You'll spend hours scratching your head as to why a spinning icon is appearing over something as simple as Amazon Pay boxes on a website implementing Amazon's payment system before you realise that this extension is causing it - sometimes you forget to check this extension and waste a lot of time and refreshing trying to make a website work. For example: I seen the Amazon "sign in" pop up window after checking out on a website. I signed in OK, but then the "select a card and address" section wouldn't load. This extension was blocking payments.amazon.com and payments.amazon.co.uk. What kind of stupidity is this?

FANTASTIC app for killing tracking sites and cookies. I use it WITH AdBlock Plus and Disconnect. All 3 in combination is a PERFECT way to have full control of security. I personally also recommend blocking cookies and javascript BY DEFAULT and only allow it on sites you want/intend to visit.

An absolut nightmare in the last days. Quite a few web sites not loading even when I whitelist them. Once uninstalled, everything works and at an outstangin speed.

Breaks the ability to add youtube videos to your watch later playlist from embedded sources. For this alone, I'm removing it.

Easy to use and allows customization to what trackers you wish to unblock for whatever reason you would need that.

The thing works as expected, protects your privacy, and speeds up your browsing. Best extension on the web, in my opinion.

does the job

??

I just installed so I'll give it ⭐⭐⭐ for now. Is there a way to enable a tracker on one site, but block it elsewhere? Umatrix is able to do that. For example allowing reddit resources on reddit, but blocking them on all other sites.

super awesome

I liked it, but now I can't access chrome remote desktop, even when it is disabled. The only way to access chrome remote desktop is either disabling the extension completely or opening up in incognito mode.

Very useful extension.

I was unable to open Google Contacts from my Gmail account, it turns out Privacy Badger caused the problem - avoid this until the bug is fixed

This is a great extension!

You may not realise that it's a 5 star extension, until you try other tracker-blocker extensions. Once you see how much they demand from the user, how slowly they adapt to new trackers and how little they allow you to see which trackers are permitted or not, you will cherish privacy badger dearly in comparison. It helps you tweak it with ease and after a few manual tweaks, it begins automaticlaly adapting to your style of hating tracking vs not minding tracking.

I love it a lot. It does a great job behind the scenes and has the big plus of being governed by the EFF. There are rare occasions where I have to intervene (once a month?). The intervention is most of the time simple (move a slider in the popup). It drastically improves my Internet experience on a daily basis. What could you want more?

With this extension enabled in ChrEdge (Microsoft's new Edge browser), any request triggered with `fetch` to a properly configured CORS resource would stuck in `pending` state. This rendered the extension useless for my daily work.

yes it amaszing

My internet experience in general seems to have improved since installing Privacy Badger. It is not high maintenance at all as some have claimed. It just sits there quietly, doing its thing for the most part. I've been receiving a lot of spam lately from overseas. I know it is because they are somehow reading my browser history because they always contain my recent key search words. I don't have a lot of extensions and the ones I have are pretty benign I think. The two I have some question about are New Tab Redirect and Stylist but I really like those two. I am hoping that Privacy Badger will block anyone from reading my history and reduce the amount of spam I receive as a result of this exploit.

Honestly, it is super handy. Makes you more aware of what is being recorded/etc.

Made the charts in tradingview all wonky/misaligned scales. Had to remove. No idea why it would have an effect.

Was working fine, but the last 2 weeks, I've been having trouble opening and saving pictures on Facebook with this enabled.

It used to work fine, but now, I can't use the Spotify web player! It opens just fine, but then, it doesn't play anything!

Initially, it seems pretty cool. I used it for about six months, If you read about this on some other professional reviews, you'll find something to the effect of "It's cool, but breaks the internet experience" And that's kinda true. After you install this, depending if you are a power user or facebook only internet user, be prepared to spend 5-10 minutes a day playing the "ReCaptcha" clicking on the picture games for literally every site you go to. Does that sound too bad" Well that's 30-60 HOURS of YEAR you are wasting with ReCaptcha because your user experience is indeed kinda broken. Some may say paying 30-60 hours of your LIFE away each year is a small price to pay for added privacy, but I think you are getting by just fine using uBlock, HTTPS everywhere and paying for AdGuard. You have to weigh it yourself. Give it a try for sure. But I think there are better options out there. You'll have a LOT more time to live life without this horrible extension wasting your time.

I have used this plugin for a few years now. I use it for its primary purpose: to block trackers. It's probably not the best at ad blocking. I recommend it if you wish to protect your privacy as much as you can. The only issue I've had is that it will break forms on some sites, but it's easy enough to disable for the site you need to use. I donate to the EFF and I hope you do too!

this prevents me from clicking on 'submit' buttons and any type of buttons like that. can't login to paypal, etc. worthless to me.

great product. it really does protect your privacy without getting the way.

<## Love you EFF ;-*

Well, this extension works well, but sometimes "too well", you have to disable it in some websites, which is annoying...anyway, thanks to the author, hope it could be better. Privacy is important for everyone.

Gmail always stalled on the loading page and couldn't figure out why. Started turning off extensions one by one and this extension was the culprit.

This extension blocks many websites' important cookies, such as qr-code when I was trying to log into my Weibo or somewhere else, which is annoying. Besides I didn't find any differences between other blocker extensions. Perhaps it's okay for its nonprofit slogan.

Takes nearly twice the amout of memory as running Ublock Origin but not nearly as effective. This Extension along with their other, HTTP Everywhere takes a lot of memory as well.

This extension adds Ads in youtube videos right before they load. They also steal info from your chrome. So beware. !!!! DO NOT USE THIS !!!!!

WebRTC Leak test (using Express VPN Leak test): UBlock Origin = "Your browser doesn't support WebRTC or WebRTC has been disabled." Privacy Badger = "Potential Leak"

Great Functionality and Amazing Extension

It has great functionality and is well designed so it has potential to be a great ad blocker but the amount of work required from the user is tremendous. A user will have to turn off trackers for days as they visit various websites because Privacy Badger green lights various trackers such as google analytics or connect.facebook. What gets my 2/5 stars is that Privacy Badger outright lies and claims google analytics and connect.facebook (and various other known trackers) are not tracking you. Life Hacker and various other journalists have already uncovered and explained how the various social media connect features track our movements without us even being logged in. Why Electronic Frontier Foundation blatantly lies to the users about the tracking and greenlights these trackers is unknown, but I'd suspect some money was involved... Used to have utter confidence in EFF, it's been shattered by this product.

Great extension, and worked every day for a year. Although, recently been crashing my Google Chome session on Mac. Can the team look into crash reports?

This is truly wonderful. Does what is expected and is more effective than any add on that my antivirus forces on me.

Perfect solution to the 1981-style tracking web future we're headed for. Don't forget to get HTTPS Everywhere as well.

News websites got SOOOO much better once I installed Privacy Badger. Thanks EFF for watching out for us.

Indispensible, amazing extension. It does break many pages, but you can just enable the sources you want and it reloads the page. It's incredible how many trackers some pages have!

Great but images now blocked on at least two sites - autotrader and motors.

The Rotten Tomatoes web-page which I use extensively started to open with no pictures. I suspected cookies & so cleared them out but to no avail. The next suspect was extensions &, as this was the last one added, I switched off & voila! Rotten Tomatoes is now loading correctly. Having 'all else failed', I've now read the instructions & disabled PB on Rotten's site & all is well. Doh!

Note that yesterday's update has broken videos using both Flash and HTML5 formats for many sites on the Chrome browser. Disabling it on those sites (or disabling the extension) will fix the problem. The Firefox version did not have the effect of breaking these videos.

A fantastic Anti-Tracking option that is far less intrusive than most and much simpler to manage & use without breaking website functionality... This is why I recommend this particular app to all my family & friends. Keep up the Good Work EFF!!

My favorite tracker-blocker. I would trust this much more than stuff like Ghostery. Keep up the good work EFF.

Love this! But can you make a way to block tracking from cookies of the website I am currently on?

fanastic!

Stopped eleven trackers on one website. Laptop seems faster and no buffering. Could be coincidence. But at the very least Facebook doesn't know what I'm doing any more.

Blocked me from opening ads I wanted to see; articles I wanted to read; etc. And when I uninstalled it, Chrome acted erratically. DO NOT INSTALL THIS. I had to re-add it to Chrome to post this review. Now I will re-uninstall it.

Great tool. Might be even better in some cases then adbock. And the tracked adjustments seems amazing!

Like.

I think it's a great app in general but found an issue with adding embedded youtube videos to my 'watch later' list. If I click on 'watch later as xxx' it would pop up with an "invalid request" error message each time. I had to go through all my plug ins to figure out what was blocking this - it's a very handy feature, when I come across a YouTube video on a random site and want to watch it later I simply add it to my Watch Later list and view it when it's convenient. For now, I have disabled PB. Hopefully they can add a way to not block this specific feature, let the user decide... ->If there is a way that I didn't see I'd appreciate someone letting me know.

This extension is awesome. I always hated seeing ads for products or pages I just visited, its pretty obvious your activity is being tracked which really annoyed me. Anyways this totally solves that but it will also make you realize just how much you're tracked and by what websites/services. (PS. its scary) Sometimes it can make certain website functions not appear or work properly but its easy to either allow that function or just white list the site. anyone who uses the internet should have this.