Privacy Badger 2024.5.31

This is a bug fix update to work around Privacy Badger failing to read from extension storage on startup for whatever reason.

Full changeset: release-2024.5.27...release-2024.5.31

Privacy Badger 2024.5.27

This is a bug fix update to restore access to Cloudflare-protected sites for users who enabled local tracker learning.

Full changeset: release-2024.5.17...release-2024.5.27

Privacy Badger 2024.5.17

Highlights:

• 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)

Full changeset: release-2024.2.6...release-2024.5.17

Privacy Badger 2024.2.6

Highlights:

• 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)

Full changeset: release-2023.12.1...release-2024.2.6

Privacy Badger 2023.12.1

Highlights:

• 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)

Full changeset: release-2023.10.31...release-2023.12.1

Privacy Badger 2023.10.31

Highlights:

• 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

Full changeset: release-2023.9.12...release-2023.10.31

Privacy Badger 2023.9.12

Highlights:

• 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

Full changeset: release-2023.6.23...release-2023.9.12

Privacy Badger 2023.6.23

This is a bug fix release addressing various site breakages.

Full changeset: release-2023.6.14...release-2023.6.23

Privacy Badger 2023.6.14

Highlights:

• 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

Full changeset: release-2023.5.10...release-2023.6.14

Privacy Badger 2023.5.10

Highlights:

• 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)

Full changeset: release-2023.1.31...release-2023.5.10