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Privacy Badger

Open source privacy-enhancing web browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

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Dec 10, 2025
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How do DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extensions differ across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave?

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is presented as a cross-browser extension that bundles tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement, and private search integration, and DuckDuckGo’s own testing compares extensio...

Jan 20, 2026
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How do browser extensions from DuckDuckGo compare with third‑party privacy extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger on desktop?

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials offers a straightforward, all‑in‑one privacy add‑on focused on tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement and search privacy aimed at non‑technical users, while uBlock Origin is...

Jan 18, 2026
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How do DuckDuckGo’s tracker‑blocking blocklists compare to those used by other privacy browsers and extensions?

DuckDuckGo maintains curated, app- and extension-focused tracker blocklists and uses them to stop many third-party requests before they load, mitigate CNAME cloaking, and apply additional protections ...

Feb 3, 2026

Which browser extensions or tools reliably flag deceptive product pages and scam sites?

A practical defense against combines two kinds of tools: reputational/anti-phishing engines that flag known-bad domains in real time (e.g., , , ) and content/privacy blockers that remove tracking and ...

Jan 26, 2026

What specific tracking techniques (fingerprinting, first‑party tracking) routinely bypass in‑browser protections and how can users mitigate them?

have reduced classical third‑party cookie tracking, but trackers routinely sidestep those protections using first‑party channels, server‑side techniques, and device ; mitigating them requires layered ...

Jan 20, 2026

What technical steps reliably prevent a website from seeing that a file was downloaded?

A website reliably detects a download when its server receives HTTP requests for a resource or when client-side analytics run while rendering content, so there is no perfect client-side way to stop a ...

Dec 16, 2025

Can browser privacy extensions outperform built-in protections and which are essential?

Browser privacy extensions can meaningfully add protections that some browsers don’t include by default—blocking trackers, forcing HTTPS, and limiting third‑party scripts—yet they also introduce new r...