Nonprofit Foundation Electronic Frontier Foundation released a plugin for Firefox and Chrome, which allows the user to block shadowed by "third parties", according to Cybersecurity. Privacy Badger software is still in beta stage. Alpha version of the plugin was released a few months ago and during that time its been downloaded more than 150,000 times.
Extension does not block online advertising and targeting system, but EFF said that the purpose of the tool is wider - lock data visiting pages of user devices, as well as the private user data.
"Our goal - it does not block ads and prevention nekontekstnogo intrusion into the private sphere of man. We believe that the emergence of such solutions is an objective necessity, "- said in a statement EFF.
In practice, the tool allows you to block a significant portion of the tracking in social networks.For example, the tool allows you to lock the collection of data when the user clicks the Like button on Facebook posts or comments in Twitter. Also, the software allows you to analyze various types of non-trivial content - graphics, scripts and includes advertising on the availability of tracking elements. Naturally, Privacy Badger deletes files and tracking identifiers Cookie, which are accepted by browsers to authenticate users.
In the EFF said that third-party domains often offer users tracking content, without which they can not work. In this case, the application allows you to unlock occupancy tracking information.
Download Privacy Badger for Google Chrome and Firefox, you can here .