Privacy Badger version history - 25 versions
Privacy Badger by EFF Technologists
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Latest version
Version 2020.12.10
Released Dec 9, 2020 - 1.22 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Older versions
Version 2020.10.7
Released Oct 7, 2020 - 1.18 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.8.25
Released Aug 25, 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.7.21
Released Jul 21, 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.6.29
Released Jun 29, 2020 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.6.2
Released Jun 2, 2020 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.5.12
Released May 12, 2020 - 1.18 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.2.19
Released Feb 19, 2020 - 1.15 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.1.13
Released Jan 13, 2020 - 1.1 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- Fixed bug that sometimes loses pre-trained data for new users
- Fixed various site breakages
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2020.1.7.1
Released Jan 7, 2020 - 1.1 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.11.18
Released Nov 18, 2019 - 1.11 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.10.28
Released Oct 28, 2019 - 1.1 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.10.8
Released Oct 8, 2019 - 1.07 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.9.23
Released Sep 23, 2019 - 1.07 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.7.1.1
Released Jul 1, 2019 - 1.09 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.2.19
Released Feb 19, 2019 - 1.04 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and laterImproved 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
Fixed various site breakagesSource code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2019.1.30
Released Jan 30, 2019 - 1.04 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.12.17
Released Dec 17, 2018 - 1.02 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- Fixed major Privacy Badger breakages in Chrome 72+
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.12.5
Released Dec 5, 2018 - 948.33 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.10.3.1
Released Oct 4, 2018 - 937.57 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and laterChanges for 2018.10.3:- 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)
Changes for 2018.10.3.1:- Fixed style problems with Google Search results
- Fixed the setting to open results in new browser windows on Google Search
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.10.3
Released Oct 3, 2018 - 937.01 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.9.20
Released Sep 20, 2018 - 924.25 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.8.22
Released Aug 22, 2018 - 925.25 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.8.1
Released Aug 1, 2018 - 869.02 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement. Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities.
- Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain
- Improved translations (Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Ukrainian)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Version 2018.7.18.1
Released Jul 18, 2018 - 869.09 KBWorks with firefox 50.0 and later, android 50.0 and later- Added setting to disable sending Do Not Track to websites
- Fixed security issue with link unwrapping on Facebook. Thanks to Cure53 for discovering and reporting this vulnerability.
- Improved ordering of domain names in the popup and on the options page
- Improved handling of disabled sites with wildcards
- Added t.co link replacement to user profiles on Twitter
- Linked to EFF software privacy policy from the new user welcome page
- Updated to latest dummy Google Tag Manager script from uBlock Origin to avoid "failed to redirect a network request" warnings in Chrome
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, German, Russian, Swedish, Turkish)
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0