Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking 219
An anonymous reader writes "EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today."
What's somewhat funny about it (Score:5, Funny)
Install it and it will show you a page where you can link to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to tell people about how awesome it is.
Is that supposed to be cynical or ... I don't know, I find it kinda funny. Isn't it supposedly blocking pages like that?
Problem Illustrated (Score:2, Funny)
Does it not illustrate the problem perfectly when you browse to the EFF site pushing an alpha version of a tool to block and the download page has a tracker on it?
Re: Somebody causing trouble? (Score:0, Funny)
You actually think Slashdot is relevant enough to render ANY site out of existence? Even Malda abandoned this trash heap when he realized what it had turned into.
Now the most "relevant" stories on this site are whatever tech and Internet articles that get cherrypicked from Reddit...about a week after the fact.
Enjoy your fantasy world while it lasts, I'm willing to bet Dice cuts this site off like a skin tag once they're done losing money on it.
Does it block Piwik Analytics? (Score:4, Funny)
Because this is the tracker the EFF has on the download page for "Privacy Badger."
Re:NAT and proxies (Score:5, Funny)
Problem:
1. Man goes to kinkybondagesmut.com on his PC.
2. Seven-year-old daughter goes to ad-funded sillychildishgame.com on iPad.
3. Ad-network consult their profile and determine this IP address is currently in used by an adult male with an interest in pornograhy.
4. Family consults their local moral crusader organisation. Legal action is taken.