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Privacy Badger a new browser plugin from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that blocks tracking by cookies and adverts.

[mrjonathanr]

I misread the url as eff.orf, not eff.org. Shame.

[tomtom]

Very good. I like. Thanks Slackers.

Nice to see how many shitty little trackers websites put on.. (16 on the independent!)

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I've used Ghostery to do some of this for a while now, but you have to configure it.

One of the aims of PrivacyBadger is to make it simple for the user and as such no configuration is really required (according to their blurb).

I think it would be better if it incorporated all of the functionality of AdBlockPlus and blocked all banner adds as well, but no harm in having multiple plug-ins installed.

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And I've no idea at present whether it blocks this difficult (virtually impossible?) tracker.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

On Chrome it makes your homepage the default Google one and takes away your personal links to Gmail, Chrome Apps etc.

[tomtom]

Didn't on my PC.. business as usual...

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On Chrome it makes your homepage the default Google one and takes away your personal links to Gmail, Chrome Apps etc.

That makes sense if you block the tracking cookies as then Googles servers won't know who you are, no?

You can customise each site and permit it to use tracking stuff if you want.

[mrjonathanr]

Thanks for posting this Slackers. My only grip is the ubiquitous red.amber.green coding. Schools use it, guidebooks use it, everyone uses it. Apart from me and the other 8% of colour blind males in the population of course. What'd be wrong with red blue white for example?

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mrjonathanr in the middle....



Is there a way to customise the colours on your system as a whole so that what would normally be red/amber/green is red/white/blue?  I genuinely don't know for any operating system as its never anything I've had to look at but perhaps under M$-Win there might be something under "Accessibility" which is I think where settings for visually impaired/disabled users reside.  That or themes/display perhaps? 

Anyway, not a problem, spread the word, action speaks louder than tweeting crap about not wanting to be monitored.

[tomtom]

mrjonathanr in the middle....

Is that Jasper to the left or right... not sure

[Jaspersharpe]

More the left nowadays but I take your point. Fuck yeah!

[tomtom]

More the left nowadays but I take your point. Fuck yeah!

:D

Who's the one on the far right... can't quite place them...

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Who's the one on the far right... can't quite place them...

Thats the Professor of Physical Geography 

[tomtom]

Who's the one on the far right... can't quite place them...

Thats the Professor of Physical Geography 

Fuck no! I'm not that handsome...

[Duma]

Tech idiot/
Does this work on anyone's phone? Install button does nowt on mine
/Tech idiot.

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Depends which browser your using.

The Android Chrome browser doesn't...

Does Chrome for Android support apps and extensions?
    Chrome apps and extensions are currently not supported on Chrome for Android. We have no plans to announce at this time.

Firefox for Android has extensions but a quick search suggests there isn't a version yet available.

[Duma]

cheers. Am on chrome on phone atm but will probably switch if this gets released for android firefox

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And I've no idea at present whether it blocks this difficult (virtually impossible?) tracker.

AdBlock Plus claim they will be able to block 'fingerprinting'