Privacy Badger 2024.7.17

Highlights:

• Disabled Google's "Privacy Sandbox" ad tracking by default. We previously disabled Google's Topics API; we now also disable "site-suggested ads" (ad targeting) and "ad measurement" (ad attribution reporting) APIs.
• Improved widget replacement for Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitch and YouTube embeds. To try out our widget replacement for YouTube embeds, move the toggle for youtube.com to red (full blocking).
• Updated the new user welcome page to ask Chrome users to pin Privacy Badger to the browser toolbar
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved Esperanto, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish translations. Removed Arabic and Bulgarian translations due to lack of updates.

Full changeset: release-2024.6.14...release-2024.7.17

Privacy Badger 2024.6.14

Highlights:

• Added a note to Privacy Badger's popup on YouTube. YouTube not loading? Ads not blocked? For answers, visit the FAQ.
• Drastically improved Privacy Badger's loading on Chrome startup when Chrome is set to reopen previously opened tabs
• Fixed Privacy Badger forgetting your settings on startup (by retrying reading from extension storage when reading fails for whatever reason)
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Esperanto, Polish)

Full changeset: release-2024.6.3...release-2024.6.14

Privacy Badger 2024.6.3

This is a bug fix update to hide the "Privacy Badger failed to initialize" error when it no longer applies.

Full changeset: release-2024.5.31...release-2024.6.3

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