Privacy Badger is EFF’s
free privacy plugin; it blocks trackers and ads from companies that
practice “non-consensual tracking,” in which your browser’s “do not
track” instructions are not honored.
That means that advertisers who respect your privacy choices still get
through, but everyone else is blocked from ever seeing you. And Facebook
is a major customer of those “nonconsensual tracking companies” that
hoover up your data as you traverse the web and then sell it to Facebook
to add to the dossier that Facebook compiles on your every motion.
I use Privacy Badger, and it’s a big part of how I defend myself against
the kinds of data about me that Facebook can provide to creepy
companies like Cambridge Analytica.
