The EFF’s keeps pushing in favor of their browser extension “Privacy Badger”, but it seems like it only achieves a fraction of what other extension like uBlock does. (I could be wrong here)
Why would someone want to use Privacy Badger instead of uBlock ? Or is there a value in using both ? (+ Why does the EFF keeps recommending their extension when uBlock seems to do more?)
I saw that already. The dude has been butthurt or something ever since I added that to the wiki and then commented in a discussion in PB’s repo years ago about why. Listen, kudos for them (EFF) trying to build something but that something is now obsolete (and has been for years - IDK why he seems bent on flogging a dead horse) .. and that something was never even best-in-class and to boot, the only point of difference it had was highly fingerprintable.
They backed the wrong horse (which is now dead) - who you going to listen to - some extension dude living in the past, or a super cool yellow dude with lipstick on his ass who has worked with Tor Browser for 5+ years and is a core contributor, helping provide REAL solutions
The original sell was that it was heuristics-based, so it can tell when the same tracking scripts are being loaded on different sites and block them. But then it was discovered that could be used to track you around in itself so they had to disable that feature by default, making it basically just a worse version of UBO.
PrivacyBadger has a different scope, its not an ad blocker. It happens to block a lot of ads, but that is because most ads are trackers.¹ Like DuckDuckGo they focus on tracker blocking.
Diversity is always good, we want something we can switch to if something ever happens to uBO.
uBO is developed as far as I know by unpaid volunteers and Raymond Hill specifically declined donations. Which is honorable and how long they have been running is a very big achievement. Some might still prefer a tool that has a bigger Org behind it.
BTW i prefer their way have handeling embeds
It anyway adds to your fingerprint to run more extensions no? 
Firefox already blocks trackers OOTB, it’s not really needed.
Don’t they use severely outdated disconnect lists?
Also Firefox isn’t the only browser supported by PrivacyBadger
List of reasons to use Privacy Badger:
Yeah but I just checked their site and it was updated 7 days ago. Also just about every browser from Safari to Brave to even Edge has built in tracker blocking. Even Chrome has a built in ad blocker. UBO also blocks trackers as well not just ads. I don’t think there’s a good reason to use Privacy Badger anymore.
With the exception of Brave, you should always use uBO (Lite) in all of these and others.
Only if you don’t want to see ads, otherwise you don’t need to imo.
this is a fundamentally broken belief.
all ads are trackers and a security risk.
furthermore, the lists those use are greatly watered down so as to not upset the data collection companies.
They block a lot less trackers than uBO, with the exception of Brave
