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

Privacy Badger 2020.12.10

Highlights:

• Added a direct link to widget content to replacements for widgets like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Spotify. You can click this link to watch a video (for example) without sharing the page you are on with the video provider.
• Fixed "fbclid" tracking parameter removal on Facebook
• Enabled Google Search link unwrapping on Firefox for Android
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2020.10.7...release-2020.12.10

Privacy Badger 2020.10.7

Highlights:

• Disabled learning (by default) to address privacy concerns. Visit https://www.eff.org/badger-evolution to learn more.
• Added support for Global Privacy Control, a new specification that lets you tell companies you'd like to opt out of data sharing and selling
• Added a section to the options page to display the browser settings that Privacy Badger overrides for privacy reasons
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2020.8.25...release-2020.10.7

Privacy Badger 2020.8.25

Highlights:

• Added a button to widget replacements to always allow a widget on a site
• Improved scrolling of tracking domains on the options page
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish)

Full changeset: release-2020.7.21...release-2020.8.25

Privacy Badger 2020.7.21

Highlights:

• Improved broken site reporting screen in the popup
• Refreshed the look of options page tabs
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Danish, European Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish)

Full changeset: release-2020.6.29...release-2020.7.21

Privacy Badger 2020.6.29

Highlights:

• Added replacement placeholder for Disqus comments widgets
• Fixed domain sliders on the options page not saving in some cases
• Fixed slider changes on the options page resetting the list of domains, causing you to lose your place if you were scrolled down
• Fixed domain slider tooltip display
• Re-enabled custom tooltips in Firefox
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Esperanto, Hebrew, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2020.6.2...release-2020.6.29

Privacy Badger 2020.6.2

Highlights:

• Added replacement placeholders for Facebook Comments/Video and Twitch Player
• Removed Twitter link unwrapping. We are unable to unwrap t.co links on Twitter at this time, as the original URL is no longer present in the Twitter website's document structure.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Hebrew, Polish, Swedish)

Full changeset: release-2020.5.12...release-2020.6.2

Privacy Badger 2020.5.12

Highlights:

• Made buttons in the popup easier to see and click (or tap, on Firefox for Android)
• Added a replacement placeholder widget for Google reCAPTCHA
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)

Full changeset: release-2020.2.19...release-2020.5.12

Privacy Badger 2020.2.19

Highlights:

• Added website breakage warnings, shown in the popup when you block a domain known to break websites
• Removed pixel cookie sharing detection pending security fixes
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Russian)

Full changeset: release-2020.1.13...release-2020.2.19