Privacy Badger version history - 25 versions
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Privacy Badger version history - 25 versions
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Latest version
Version 2024.7.17
Released Jul 17, 2024 - 1.73 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- Disabled Google's "Privacy Sandbox" ad tracking by default. We previously disabled Google's Topics API; we now also disable "site-suggested ads" (ad targeting) and "ad measurement" (ad attribution reporting) APIs.
- Improved widget replacement for Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitch and YouTube embeds. To try out our widget replacement for YouTube embeds, move the toggle for
youtube.comto red (full blocking). - Updated the new user welcome page to ask Chrome users to pin Privacy Badger to the browser toolbar
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved Esperanto, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish translations. Removed Arabic and Bulgarian translations due to lack of updates.
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
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Version 2024.6.14
Released Jun 14, 2024 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- Added a note to Privacy Badger's popup on YouTube. YouTube not loading? Ads not blocked? For answers, visit the FAQ.
- Fixed Privacy Badger forgetting your settings on startup (by retrying reading from extension storage when reading fails for whatever reason)
- Fixed various site breakages
- Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Esperanto, Polish)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2024.6.3
Released Jun 4, 2024 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and laterThis is a bug fix update to hide the "Privacy Badger failed to initialize" error when it no longer applies.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2024.5.31
Released May 31, 2024 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and laterThis is a bug fix update to work around Privacy Badger failing to read from extension storage for whatever reason.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2024.5.27
Released May 28, 2024 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later2024.5.27 a bug fix release to restore access to Cloudflare-protected sites for users who enabled local tracker learning.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2024.5.17
Released May 17, 2024 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- Updated "share" buttons on the new user welcome page: added button for Mastodon; fixed Facebook and X (Twitter) buttons
- Unbroke X.com and a few other sites
- Improved translations (Greek, Hebrew)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2024.2.6
Released Feb 6, 2024 - 1.8 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.12.1
Released Dec 1, 2023 - 1.81 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.10.31
Released Oct 31, 2023 - 1.8 MBWorks with firefox 78.0 and later, android 113.0 and later- 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
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.9.12
Released Sep 12, 2023 - 1.89 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later- 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 from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
- Fixed various site breakages
- Added Malay and restored Serbian translations
- Improved Traditional Chinese translations
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.6.23
Released Jun 23, 2023 - 1.88 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later2023.6.23 is a bug fix release addressing various site breakages.
Notes for 2023.6.14:- 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
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.6.14
Released Jun 14, 2023 - 1.91 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later- 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
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.5.10
Released May 10, 2023 - 1.88 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2023.1.31
Released Jan 31, 2023 - 1.75 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later- 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
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2022.9.27
Released Sep 27, 2022 - 1.42 MBWorks with firefox 60.0 and later, android 60.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2021.11.23.1
Released Nov 23, 2021 - 1.35 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2021.8.17
Released Aug 17, 2021 - 1.32 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later2021.8.17 is a bug fix release to fix link clicking on various websites.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2021.8.11
Released Aug 11, 2021 - 1.32 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2021.6.8
Released Jun 8, 2021 - 1.32 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2021.2.2
Released Feb 2, 2021 - 1.18 MBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later, android 52.0 and later- 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)
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
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 v3.0
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 v3.0
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 v3.0
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 v3.0
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 v3.0