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Tracking bug for this (in Firefox): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/11

FYI, upgrading to 0.1.1 (released Friday) fixes the bug I mentioned. Subdomains of whitelisted sites are also whitelisted now. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/6…

Unfortunately not, if you use Incognito by default (other than being able to see who's tracking you and toggle the settings manually). We could add a feature to optionally save dat…

There is code in Privacy Badger that checks whether a site has publicly posted a statement of compliance with DNT before blocking it. If they do and then violate that commitment, w…

Do you have other extensions installed that are already blocking trackers? (NoScript, for instance.) If so, Privacy Badger shows only the ones that they've missed.

To clarify, those cases where we block cookies but not requests entirely are the sites on this whitelist: https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist.txt This pull request will also …

UGH, you're right. Ok, let me explain this. We whitelisted google.com but it was not anticipated that, in the general case, we should really whitelist all subdomains in order not t…

The reasons for not using a blacklist in Privacy Badger were philosophical, not technical. I agree it would be more convenient to ship with a blacklist but hopefully the learning a…

Perhaps now is a good time to mention that if you want to work on projects like Privacy Badger with EFF, we're hiring for a Staff Technologist: https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jo…

Yes, the alpha version (what we just launched) only works on third-party cookies, so the heuristic blocking algorithm doesn't do anything if you block 3rd party cookies entirely. W…

We do have a preloaded list of third-party sites to not block because they would cause too much breakage. Note that because PBadger is in alpha, this list is very short right now: …

Note that Privacy Badger uses a browser history-dependent algorithm for blocking - when you first install it, it doesn't block anything because it assumes that third-party trackers…

Hi, I'm an EFF staff technologist and wrote most of Privacy Badger Firefox (though I didn't come up with the idea). It's often hard for us to find projects like yours, so we apprec…

Hi, I'm the main author of Privacy Badger's Firefox version. You are 100% right; I'll point this out to the text authors. On the other hand, EFF's fanbase is generally very technic…

maybe the hackpad creators will open-source and/or release upstream patches to etherpad! cough

I'm aware that there's modules you can add to do those things. Are there public instances that have those installed? It's been a while since I used Piratepad et al.

Hackpad is an Etherpad fork, so you might conclude that someone has already done the work of wrangling Etherpade code and making those patches. ;)

It is often like that in Firefox.

They don't do a great job of advertising why they're better, but semi-sensible keybindings (similar to Github markdown) and code syntax highlighting sold it for me. Also doesn't re…

My favorite parts of Hackpad were the features that weren't intended to have mass-market appeal (ex: code syntax highlighting, markdown-inspired keybindings, ability to easily crea…

Agreed 110%, but I would back up my Hackpad documents now. Claims of being able to sustain a business after acquihire when the parent company has no stated interest in keeping it a…

Thanks for the feedback! The tech team at EFF is pretty overloaded all of the time; we've hired outside contractors before but this is a project where it seems more efficient (and …

In the case of the sample described in the post, there was a TLS handshake that was immediately terminated, followed by a client hello and the heartbeats. The client hello and hear…

For anyone following along at home, we looked into this and it seems to be caused by the fact that you're using an older operating system that doesn't ship with the StartCom CA cer…

Emailing me works. yan at eff dot org.