What's new in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2024.2.6
Feb 8, 2024
- Fixed timing issue that could lead to incomplete or empty tracker data on installation in Firefox
- Fixed various UI display issues
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.12.1 (Dec 7, 2023)
- Improved widget replacement for embedded Tweets
- Fixed blocking WebSocket connections to blocked domains
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Galician translations in Firefox
- Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Greek, Japanese)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.10.31 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Added widget replacement for embedded Tweets. Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful widgets with placeholders. These replacements protect privacy while letting you restore the original widget whenever you want it or need it for the page to function.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish translations
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.9.12 (Sep 15, 2023)
- Improved link tracking protection ("link unwrapping") on Google sites. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking for links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Malay and restored Serbian translations
- Improved Traditional Chinese translations
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.6.23 (Jun 28, 2023)
- 2023.6.23 is a bug fix release addressing various site breakages.
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.6.14 (Jun 19, 2023)
- Privacy Badger now comes with the largest blocklist yet, thanks to improved tracking detection and continually expanding pre-training. In addition to learning from tracking techniques like cookies and canvas fingerprinting, Privacy Badger now also learns from the Beacon API.
- Fixed blocking trackers from just-closed tabs or from pages you recently navigated away from
- Improved display of tracking domains on the options page on larger screens
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved Italian translations
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.5.10 (May 16, 2023)
- Expanded protection for "cookieblocked" (slider set to yellow) domains. These domains are allowed to load without access to cookies, as a compromise to avoid breaking websites. However, sometimes the same domain is used to serve both unobjectionable content as well as obnoxious fingerprinters that do not need cookies to track your browsing. Privacy Badger will now fully block these fingerprinters.
- Disabled Google's Topics API by default. The Topics API replaces Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC).
- You can now see where Privacy Badger observed tracking by a given domain by clicking on the domain name in the list of tracking domains on the options page
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Vietnamese translations
- Improved translations (Finnish, French, Hebrew, Persian, European Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2023.1.31 (Feb 2, 2023)
- Added a note to the popup to explain that if you would like to log into websites with your Google account, you need to fully allow accounts.google.com
- Added dark theme support to widget replacement placeholders
- Fixed blocking service worker-initiated requests in Chrome
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Hindi translations
- Improved Traditional Chinese translations
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2022.9.27 (Sep 28, 2022)
- Improved widget replacement system to better handle embedded YouTube videos
- Delayed opening the new user welcome page for a few seconds to work around a Chromium bug with administrator settings (managed storage)
- Removed obsolete "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" setting
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Japanese translations
- Improved translations (Dutch, Finnish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2021.11.23.1 (Nov 29, 2021)
- Improved widget replacement system to better handle Google reCAPTCHA. Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful widgets with placeholders. These replacements protect privacy while letting you restore the original widget whenever you want it or need it for the page to function.
- Improved tracking script surrogation system to work across more websites. Script surrogates protect privacy while avoiding site breakages.
- Fixed display of non-tracking domains
- Added more widget replacement placeholders and fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Persian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2021.8.17 (Aug 18, 2021)
- Improved buttons in the popup: Disable and Report are larger and use less text, Donate is now a link
- Removed "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" from the options page. If you previously enabled this setting, it remains available for now. However, the setting is now deprecated and will be removed in a future update. To learn more, visit https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/2782
- Improved dark theme in Chrome
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2021.8.11 (Aug 12, 2021)
- Improved buttons in the popup: Disable and Report are larger and use less text, Donate is now a link
- Removed "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" from the options page. If you previously enabled this setting, it remains available for now. However, the setting is now deprecated and will be removed in a future update.
- Improved dark theme in Chrome
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2021.6.8 (Jun 10, 2021)
- Disabled Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). To learn more, visit https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
- Improved tracker detection and blocking by looking up known CNAME tracker aliases. Thanks to AdGuard for providing the CNAME DNS data behind this feature.
- You can now see in the popup when first-party protections such as link unwrapping are active on the site you are on
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Greek and Hungarian translations
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, Hebrew, Korean, European Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2021.2.2 (Feb 3, 2021)
- Added a dark theme. To see it, enable dark mode in operating system or device preferences.
- Added a section to the Widget Replacement tab on the options page to manage the list of widgets that were set to be always allowed on certain sites
- Disabled network prefetching/preloading to improve privacy
- Added replacements for Dailymotion and OK.ru video player widgets
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, Hebrew)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.12.10 (Dec 14, 2020)
- Added a direct link to widget content to replacements for widgets like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Spotify. You can click this link to watch a video (for example) without sharing the page you are on with the video provider. You can also right-click the link to copy the link URL.
- Fixed "fbclid" tracking parameter removal on Facebook
- Enabled Google Search link unwrapping on Firefox for Android
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.10.7 (Oct 8, 2020)
- Disabled learning (by default) to address privacy concerns. Visit https://www.eff.org/badger-evolution to learn more.
- Added support for Global Privacy Control, a new specification that lets you tell companies you'd like to opt out of data sharing and selling. Visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/ to learn more.
- Added a new section to the options page to display the browser settings that Privacy Badger overrides for privacy reasons
- Fied various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.8.25 (Aug 27, 2020)
- Added a button to widget replacements to always allow a widget on a site
- Improved scrolling of tracking domains on the options page
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.7.21 (Jul 22, 2020)
- Improved broken site reporting screen in the popup
- Refreshed the look of options page tabs
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Danish, European Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.6.29 (Jun 30, 2020)
- Added replacement placeholder for Disqus comments widgets
- Fixed domain sliders on the options page not saving in some cases
- Fixed slider changes on the options page resetting the list of domains, causing you to lose your place if you were scrolled down
- Fixed domain slider tooltip display
- Re-enabled custom tooltips in Firefox
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Esperanto, Hebrew, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.6.2 (Jun 3, 2020)
- Added replacement placeholders for Facebook Comments/Video and Twitch Player
- Removed Twitter link unwrapping. We are unable to unwrap t.co links on Twitter at this time, as the original URL is no longer present in the Twitter website's document structure.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Hebrew, Polish, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.5.12 (May 13, 2020)
- Made buttons in the popup easier to see and click (or tap, on Firefox for Android)
- Added a replacement placeholder widget for Google reCAPTCHA
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.2.19 (Feb 20, 2020)
- Added website breakage warnings, shown in the popup when you block a domain known to break websites
- Removed pixel cookie sharing detection pending security fixes
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Russian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.1.13 (Jan 13, 2020)
- Fixed bug that sometimes loses pre-trained data for new users
- Fixed various site breakages
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2020.1.7.1 (Jan 10, 2020)
- Added helpful text to popup on disabled sites
- Fixed display issues in popup on smaller displays
- Fixed Facebook link unwrapping on messenger.com
- Fixed some cookies getting incorrectly flagged as high entropy
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.11.18 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Improved display of domains Privacy Badger hasn't yet learned to block
- Fixed export/import of the WebRTC protection setting
- Fixed certain YouTube ("video unavailable"), Vimeo ("Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here"), and other video players by revising referrer protection for "cookieblocked" domains
- Fixed various other site breakages
- Added Korean translations
- Improved translations (Finnish, French, Hebrew, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.10.28 (Oct 29, 2019)
- Updated the popup with a new, higher-contrast look
- Widget placeholders will no longer be applied for domains on the yellowlist. The value of widget placeholders is full blocking (best privacy) combined with a clear way to restore potentially useful blocked content (convenience). Mixing cookie blocking and placeholders doesn't actually improve privacy or convenience but does introduce various bugs.
- Added a replacement placeholder for YouTube (disabled by default as youtube.com is still on the yellowlist for now)
- Added the Widget Replacement tab to the options page to manage widgets that do get blocked and replaced with Privacy Badger placeholders. Visit Widget Replacement to selectively disable placeholders. For example, you want social buttons out of your life completely.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Hebrew translations
- Improved translations (Italian, Russian, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.10.8 (Oct 9, 2019)
- Fixed image/video thumbnails in Google search results
- Fixed various other site breakages
- Removed the green "0" tracker count badge. No need to draw attention when there is nothing to show.
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.9.23 (Sep 26, 2019)
- Added helpful text to popup on special browser pages like the New Tab page
- Fixed pixel cookie sharing detection being broken by First-Party Isolation in Firefox
- Fixed major issues with Service Workers-powered sites like Gmail and Twitter
- Fixed various other site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.7.11 (Jul 10, 2019)
- Added pixel cookie sharing detection. Privacy Badger now records tracking by images with querystrings that contain first-party cookie data. This catches Google Analytics.
- Removed display of non-tracking domains from the popup by default. Hiding domains that Privacy Badger does not consider to be tracking should reduce self-inflicted Web breakage.
- Enabled Facebook link unwrapping on messenger.com
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Catalan translations
- Improved translations (Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Persian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Swedish, Ukrainian)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.2.19 (Feb 20, 2019)
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved replacement widgets:
- Replaced the "play" icon with an "allow once" button to improve accessibility and to make it more clear our widgets are interactive
- Made activation also activate any other widgets of the same type
- Updated the replacement for Vimeo to ignore background videos
- Set minimum dimensions to avoid becoming too small or hidden
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2019.1.30 (Jan 31, 2019)
- Added replacement widgets for embedded Spotify, Streamable and Vimeo players. Privacy Badger can replace potentially useful third-party widgets with placeholders. This avoids on-by-default tracking while providing a clear way to restore the original widget on demand.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Arabic and European Portuguese translations
- Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Czech, German, Persian, Swedish, Turkish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.12.17 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Fixed major Privacy Badger breakages in Chrome 72+
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.12.5 (Dec 6, 2018)
- Added a Share button to the popup. This lets you easily copy and paste Badger's findings on any page.
- Updated link protection to work on all Google Search country domains
- Updated link protection on Facebook to remove the new "fbclid" tracking parameter
- Added support for enterprise/admin/group policy settings overrides. This lets administrators preconfigure Privacy Badger installations. For more information, please visit admin deployment documentation on Privacy Badger's GitHub.
- Fixed various bugs with local storage protection for "cookieblocked" (slider set to "yellow") domains
- Made the options page work better on small and on large displays
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Italian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.12.5 (Dec 6, 2018)
- Added a Share button to the popup. This lets you easily copy and paste Badger's findings on any page.
- Updated link protection to work on all Google Search country domains
- Updated link protection on Facebook to remove the new "fbclid" tracking parameter
- Added support for enterprise/admin/group policy settings overrides. This lets administrators preconfigure Privacy Badger installations. For more information, please visit admin deployment documentation on Privacy Badger's GitHub.
- Fixed various bugs with local storage protection for "cookieblocked" (slider set to "yellow") domains
- Made the options page work better on small and on large displays
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Italian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.10.3.1 (Oct 5, 2018)
- Fixed style problems with Google Search results
- Fixed the setting to open results in new browser windows on Google Search
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.10.3 (Oct 4, 2018)
- Added protection against outgoing link click tracking on Google Search, Google Docs and Google Hangouts
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Finnish translations
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.9.20 (Sep 21, 2018)
- Added buttons to back up and restore the disabled sites list using Firefox/Google Sync. The new buttons live under the Manage Data tab on the options page.
- Added saving of in-progress error reports so that you no longer lose your typing when you close the popup for whatever reason
- Fixed popup layout problems when opened in the overflow menu in Firefox
- Updated popup and options to use a higher resolution Badger logo on higher pixel density displays
- Fixed problems with broken fonts and images on Google Docs
- Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
New in Privacy Badger for Firefox 2018.8.22 (Aug 23, 2018)
- Added pre-trained tracker data for new Privacy Badger installations. Visit www.eff.org/badger-pretraining to learn more.
- Added reset/clear tracker data buttons to the Manage Data options page tab
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Persian and Brazilian Portuguese translations
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Danish, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Swedish)