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EFF’s new Privacy Badger Chrome extension helps prevent online tracking

02/05/2014

Digital rights organization EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is tackling advertisers that track people’s web activities after (...)
Digital rights organization EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is tackling advertisers that track people’s web activities after it launched an extension for Google’s Chrome browser which blocks out unscrupulous online advertising techniques. The alpha version of Privacy Badger, as the extension is called, was released today. While EFF says it has a few bugs to iron out, the software essentially sits quietly in your browser monitoring third parties that interact with you while you view websites. “If a third-party server appears to be tracking you without permission, by using uniquely identifying cookies to collect a record of the pages you visit across multiple... This story continues at The Next Web
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