Alexei

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Hi, a few things. While there is likely to be overlap between the various advertising/tracker lists and Privacy Badger, regardless of whether you enable learning locally, Privacy Badger can automatically...

All extensions that modify page state are fingerprintable. Privacy Badger's canvas fingerprinting detection that the adtech madness article analyzes is disabled by default. The arkenfox user.js page falsely claims that...

Anyone can re-enable local learning with one click on the options page. Imagine browsing the Web in a region poorly covered by manually assembled lists. If you don't re-enable, you...

You seem to think Privacy Badger attempts to tamper with canvas fingerprints. It doesn't and it never did. What made you think that's the case? >it has other benefits such...

I don't think I can help you.

Privacy Badger blocking efficacy: >Notably this means that the combination of Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin block more than each extension on their own, highlighting again that they are indeed...

Do you see how "[effective tracker blocker extension] is redundant [...] with dFPI" and "No one said state partitioning encompasses absolutely everything" are contradictory statements?

State partitioning doesn't protect against: - IP tracking - browser fingerprinting - querystring ID syncing - personal information exfiltration ... - slow websites - wasting bandwidth/CPU/memory Blocking trackers does.

Privacy Badger is an effective tracker blocker with or without local learning. You should absolutely enable local learning if you are comfortable with the tradeoffs. We wrote the [aforementioned EFF...

>Most (not all) cross-domain state tracking has been neutralized (and arkenfox sanitizes per session). In that context, Privacy Badger is obsolete, and even uBlock Origin is almost a luxury --...