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

Privacy Badger 2023.1.31

Highlights:

• Added a note to the popup to explain that if you would like to log into websites with your Google account, you need to fully allow accounts.google.com
• Added dark theme support to widget replacement placeholders
• Fixed blocking service worker-initiated requests in Chrome
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Hindi translations
• Improved Traditional Chinese translations

Full changeset: release-2022.9.27...release-2023.1.31

Privacy Badger 2022.9.27

Highlights:

• Improved widget replacement system to better handle embedded YouTube videos
• Delayed opening the new user welcome page for a few seconds to work around a Chromium bug with administrator settings (managed storage)
• Removed obsolete "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" setting
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Japanese translations
• Improved translations (Dutch, Finnish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2021.11.23.1...release-2022.9.27

Privacy Badger 2021.11.23.1

Highlights:

• Improved widget replacement system to better handle Google reCAPTCHA. 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.
• Improved tracking script surrogation system to work across more websites. Script surrogates protect privacy while avoiding site breakages.
• Fixed display of non-tracking domains
• Added more widget replacement placeholders and fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Persian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Swedish)

Full changeset: release-2021.8.17...release-2021.11.23.1

Privacy Badger 2021.8.17

Bug fix release to fix link clicking on various websites: e1f32a3

Full changeset: release-2021.8.11...release-2021.8.17

Privacy Badger 2021.8.11

Highlights:

• Improved buttons in the popup: Disable and Report are larger and use less text, Donate is now a link
• Removed "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" from the options page. If you previously enabled this setting, it remains available for now. However, the setting is now deprecated and will be removed in a future update. To learn more, visit #2782.
• Improved dark theme in Chrome
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2021.6.8...release-2021.8.11

Privacy Badger 2021.6.8

Highlights:

• Disabled Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). To learn more, visit https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
• Improved tracker detection and blocking by looking up known CNAME tracker aliases. Thanks to AdGuard for providing the CNAME DNS data behind this feature.
• You can now see in the popup when first-party protections such as link unwrapping are active on the site you are on
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Greek and Hungarian translations
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, Hebrew, Korean, European Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish)

Full changeset: release-2021.2.2...release-2021.6.8

Privacy Badger 2021.2.2

Highlights:

• Added a dark theme. To see it, enable dark mode in operating system or device preferences.
• Added a section to the Widget Replacement tab on the options page to manage the list of widgets that were set to be always allowed on certain sites
• Disabled network prefetching/preloading to improve privacy
• Added replacements for Dailymotion and OK.ru video player widgets
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, Hebrew)

Full changeset: release-2020.12.10...release-2021.2.2