The EFF is making privacy easy with its Privacy Badger browser add-on

Maintaining your privacy on the web is pretty difficult when virtually every website you visit is trying to track you or collect information on you in some way, which is why Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants to make things a bit easier with a simple, lightweight browser add-on called Privacy Badger. In the same vein as browser add-ons like Disconnect and Ghostery, Privacy Badger is designed to prevent websites from tracking toy. 

Noah from EFF writes, “Online tracking has become a pervasive invisible reality of the modern web. Most sites you load are likely to be full of ads, tracking pixels, social media share buttons, and other invisible trackers all harvesting data about your web browsing. These trackers use cookies and other methods to read unique IDs associated with your browser, the result being that they record all the sites you visit as you browse around the internet.” “This sort of tracking is invisible to most web users, meaning they never get the option to agree to or opt-out of it. Today EFF has launched the 1.0 version of Privacy Badger, an extension designed to prevent these trackers from accessing unique info about you and your browsing. Install Privacy Badger to browse the web free of pervasive tracking.”