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 Have you noticed that after visiting an online store to check out some products, those products you looked up or similar ones keep showing up as ads on other pages?.
Well, that’s the recent trend of online marketing. They believe that when they keep stalking you with those products you might actually come back for a buy.
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But the question is, how are those advertisers able to know where you are, and to serve up related ads from sites you have visited? They utilize what is called tracking cookies. Is there a way to stop them?


If you find such ads rather annoying, you can stop them using Privacy Badger. This is a browser plug-in that detects and blocks tracking cookies. Privacy Badger prevents advertisers or websites from tracking your every move on the web.

Privacy Badger is designed to enforce the Do Not Track setting in your web browser that causes your browser to issue a request to each website you visit not to track your presence.
Unfortunately, Do Not Track is voluntary, and websites and third-party trackers are under no obligation to respect your Do Not Track wishes. This plug-in is compatible with your Chrome and Firefox browsers and it’s free.

PRIVACY BADGER CHROME AND FIREFOX | TRACKING SITES

Pros
  • Blocks most tracking cookies.
  • Won’t interfere with other cookies used for login and session information.
  • Puts some badger-like teeth behind the Do Not Track option in your browser.
Cons
  • Currently only works with Chrome and Firefox (Safari and Opera versions are in the works).
  • Only prevents tracking cookies, and not more advanced tracking systems.

Installing Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger is offered as an add-on app from the Chrome web store for Google’s Chrome web browser, and, as an extension, you can download and install directly from the developer’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) website.

Once installed, Privacy Badger positions itself as a small icon on the browser’s toolbar, which will display a number indicating how many possible tracking cookies were detected on the currently visited the website.

Clicking the badger displays a list of the cookies, along with a three-position slider for each cookie that allows you to manually set the blocking level; green for OK, yellow to block the tracking cookie on the current site, and red to block the domain that issued the cookie from ever putting a cookie in your browser again.

You don’t have to manually set the blocking levels; in fact, that would be quite tedious. Privacy Badger starts by letting all cookies through; that is, provided your other browser cookie settings allow for that.

Privacy Browser will respect other settings in your browser. As you move from site to site, the badger keeps an eye on cookies, very quickly figuring out which ones are being used to track you, and then blocking them for you.

The process is quite fast. By the time you've spent a day browsing the web, you'll likely notice many blocked domains in Privacy Badger, as well as fewer and fewer ads appearing on the websites you visit.

Privacy Badger Is Not an Ad Blocker

The badger isn't meant to be an ad blocker, but over time, ads become blocked because they contain tracking cookies that are coming from domains Privacy Badger has blocked.
So, while the badger isn't an ad blocker, it does end up being a major filter of ads with annoying habits.

Review
Privacy Badger is great at blocking tracking technology while still allowing a website to continue to work. Many other cookie or ad-blocking apps tend to disrupt websites by blocking all cookies, even those that are legitimately used by the site for non-tracking or advertising reasons.
Privacy Badger is free.


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