Privacy Badger
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Nov 22, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Tell people to use firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger.”
“I would recommend beefy adblocking and tracking-avoidance - uBlock Origin [1] and EFF Privacy Badger for example”
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“The EFF privacy badger browser add-on [1] try to block fingerprinting.”
“Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on.”
“NoScript (And/Or Privacy Badger)”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“(I develop Privacy Badger.) There are significant benefits to adding PB or uBO to a browser”
Privacy Badger developeron “Ask HN: Would you trust a new browser security exten…”
Threads where it came up
- LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer 2 mentions
- Hang on to Your Firefox 1 mention
- In less than a year, Google made scraping 10× harder 1 mention
- Orion Browser by Kagi 1 mention
- Using the internet like it's 1999 1 mention
- Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage 1 mention
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All comments 11
“privacy add-ons like uBO, uMatrix, PrivacyBadger etc”
“Tell people to use firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger.”
“I use librewolf too with privacy badger and librejs”
“I would recommend beefy adblocking and tracking-avoidance - uBlock Origin [1] and EFF Privacy Badger for example”
“The EFF privacy badger browser add-on [1] try to block fingerprinting.”
“Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on.”
“NoScript (And/Or Privacy Badger)”
“PB works well in combination with ad blockers.”
“Privacy Badger”
Here's an exhaustive list of why I, personally, have been using Brave for years: - vertical tabs - maintained by more than a single person - support for extensions - not owned by China - not Firefox - not Edge* All the AI and crypto slop can be turned off completely, so I don't care at all about features I never see after initial install. *Edge is fine if properly configured via GPO, which I can neither be bothered t
“I had forgotten I was running Ublock origin / Privacy Badger / Ghostry”