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@KelsonV@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

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New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

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We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
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  • wilberfan
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    Anyone know if things like uBlock Origin already handle this? 🤔

    • @ante@lemmy.world
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      uBlock Origin doesn’t doesn’t by default, but apparently you can enable a filter which removes tracking params from your URLs. I’ve not personally used this, but I use an add-on called ClearURLs which does something similar.

      • tb_
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        ClearURLs isn’t on Firefox Android, however (for now). uBlock and Privacy Badger are

        • @Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2•2 years ago

          I use fennec with a custom extensions list. You can add any extension you want.

        • autr
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          Using Firefox on Android, version 117.1.0, and ClearURLs is there.

        • @ScrambleVerdict@monyet.cc
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          1•2 years ago

          It is on IceRaven

      • @speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I use this uBlock Origin filter for cleaning URLs:

        https://filterlists.com/lists/actually-legitimate-url-shortener-tool

  • sadreality
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    Imagine a world where you share links with your friends and google now grouped you into cohort, sold the data to some clowns to market useless product to you and your friends!

    Got nothing to hide!

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