privacybadger

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.10.7...release-2020.12.10

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.8.25...release-2020.10.7

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.7.21...release-2020.8.25

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.6.29...release-2020.7.21

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.6.2...release-2020.6.29

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.5.12...release-2020.6.2

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.2.19...release-2020.5.12

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: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.1.13...release-2020.2.19

Highlights:

• Fixed bug that sometimes loses pre-trained data for new users
• Fixed various site breakages

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2020.1.7.1...release-2020.1.13

Highlights:

• Added helpful text to popup on disabled sites
• Fixed display issues in popup on smaller displays
• Fixed Facebook link unwrapping on messenger.com
• Fixed some cookies getting incorrectly flagged as high entropy (775ff3e69eb952e83b3da54cdfa2a851ed4cc7cf, #2536)
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.11.18...release-2020.1.7.1

Highlights:

• Improved display of domains Privacy Badger hasn't yet learned to block
• Fixed export/import of the WebRTC protection setting
• Fixed certain YouTube ("video unavailable"), Vimeo ("Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here"), and other video players by revising referrer protection for "cookieblocked" domains
• Fixed various other site breakages
• Added Korean translations
• Improved translations (Finnish, French, Hebrew, Swedish)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.10.28...release-2019.11.18

Highlights:

• Refreshed the popup with a higher-contrast look
• Widget placeholders will no longer be applied for domains on the yellowlist. The value of widget placeholders is full blocking (best privacy) combined with a clear way to restore potentially useful blocked content (convenience). Mixing cookie blocking and placeholders doesn't actually improve privacy or convenience but does introduce various bugs.
• Added a replacement placeholder for YouTube (disabled by default as youtube.com is still on the yellowlist for now)
• Added the Widget Replacement tab to the options page to manage widgets that do get blocked and replaced with Privacy Badger placeholders. Visit Widget Replacement to selectively disable placeholders. For example, you want social buttons out of your life completely.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Hebrew translations
• Improved translations (Italian, Russian, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.10.8...release-2019.10.28

Highlights:

• Fixed image/video thumbnails in Google search results
• Fixed various other site breakages
• Removed the green "0" tracker count badge. No need to draw attention when there is nothing to show.
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.9.23...release-2019.10.8

Highlights:

• Added helpful text to popup on special browser pages like the New Tab page
• Fixed pixel cookie sharing detection being broken by First-Party Isolation in Firefox
• Fixed major issues with Service Workers-powered sites like Gmail and Twitter
• Fixed various other site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.7.1.1...release-2019.9.23

Content-free update for AMO as version 2019.7.1 failed validation and could no longer be reused. The fix: 41be59bb498ae8e6b74e5125074a913a73857b2f

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.7.1...release-2019.7.1.1

Highlights:

• Added pixel cookie sharing detection. Privacy Badger now records tracking by images with querystrings that contain first-party cookie data. This catches Google Analytics. (blog post)
• Removed display of non-tracking domains from the popup by default. Hiding domains that Privacy Badger does not consider to be tracking should reduce self-inflicted Web breakage.
• Enabled Facebook link unwrapping on messenger.com
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Catalan translations
• Improved translations (Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Persian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.2.19...release-2019.7.1

Highlights:

• Improved replacement widgets:

  • Replaced the "play" icon with an "allow once" button to improve accessibility and to make it more clear our widgets are interactive
  • Made activation also activate any other widgets of the same type
  • Updated the replacement for Vimeo to ignore background videos
  • Set minimum dimensions to avoid becoming too small or hidden

• Fixed various site breakages

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2019.1.30...release-2019.2.19

Highlights:

• Added replacement widgets for embedded Spotify, Streamable and Vimeo players. Privacy Badger can replace potentially useful third-party widgets with placeholders. This avoids on-by-default tracking while providing a clear way to restore the original widget on demand.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Arabic and European Portuguese translations
• Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, Czech, German, Persian, Swedish, Turkish)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2018.12.17...release-2019.1.30

Highlights:

• Fixed major Privacy Badger breakages in Chrome 72+. If you are currently on Chrome 72 (Beta channel), you may unfortunately experience browser crashes until the next Chrome 72 update. Please see https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/2249#issuecomment-448300202 for a workaround.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2018.12.5...release-2018.12.17

Highlights:

• Added a Share button to the popup. This lets you easily copy and paste Badger's findings on any page.
• Updated link protection to work on all Google Search country domains
• Updated link protection on Facebook to remove the new "fbclid" tracking parameter
• Added support for enterprise/admin/group policy settings overrides. This lets administrators preconfigure Privacy Badger installations. For more information, please visit the admin deployment documentation page.
• Fixed various bugs with local storage protection for "cookieblocked" (slider set to "yellow") domains
• Made the options page work better on small and on large displays
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Italian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish)

Full changeset: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/compare/release-2018.10.3.1...release-2018.12.5