#privacybadger — Public Fediverse posts

"Online tracking is pervasive because it’s profitable. Tech companies earn enormous profits by targeting ads based on your online activity—a practice called “online behavioral advertising.” In fact, Big Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information.

Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Companies are incentivized to collect as much of our data as possible, then share it widely through ad networks with no oversight. This not only exposes our sensitive information to bad actors, but also fuels government surveillance. Ending surveillance-based advertising is essential for building a safer, more private web.

While strong federal privacy legislation is the ideal solution—and one that we continue to advocate for—Privacy Badger gives you a way to take action today.

Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals to tell companies not to track you or share your data. If they ignore these signals, Privacy Badger will block them, whether they are advertisers or trackers of other kinds. By withholding your browsing data from advertisers, data brokers, and Big Tech companies, you can help make online surveillance less profitable."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

#Surveillance #OnlineTracking #AdTech #Privacy #DataProtection #BigTech #PrivacyBadger

https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/

#SecurityPlanner from #ConsumerReports

(as mentioned by Thorin on #TheFinalStrawRadio today.)

FYI: Keep in mind that this page DOES have GoogleManager as one of their trackers. If you use #PrivacyBadger, and /or #StartPage whatever it is (it's an add-on for #Firefox) I would assume the option to block trackers would solve that problem.

Sigh. I ordered parts from pishop.us. Overall, they've been great! I go to track my packages today and notice that they've shipped by USPS Priority Mail. Again, fine....

but..

...The tracking link that they provide goes to track.aftership.com as a passthrough with the same tracking number to USPS. My PiHole, and uBlock Origin and PrivacyBadger plugins were very not happy with me for clicking on that.

I was able to go to USPS directly in the meantime with the tracking info to track my package. This is the expected behavior when clicking a "track package" link.

Gotta love those everyday inconveniences that web browsing and commerce hands you. The web nowadays seems downright hostile to what you as a user actually want to do to experience it.

In other words, it is time for my nap, so get off my lawn, etc. etc.

#pishop #usps #tracking #pihole #privacybadger #ublock #advertising #web #tracking

Why #EFF #PrivacyBadger Opts You Out of #Google’s “#PrivacySandbox”
Privacy Sandbox is Google’s way of letting #advertisers keep targeting #ads based on your online behavior, even after #Chrome completes its long overdue phaseout of third-party cookies.
Privacy Sandbox might be less invasive than 3rd-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your privacy. Instead it shifts control of online tracking from third-party trackers to Google.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/why-privacy-badger-opts-you-out-googles-privacy-sandbox #privacy #surveillance

* #Tampermonkey läuft mit den identischen Skripten
* #AdGuard ebenso
* #PrivacyBadger auch
* #Keepass integriert
* #WandrerEarth Plugin ebenso

Alles da. 👍