Privacy Badger 2019.2.19

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: release-2019.1.30...release-2019.2.19

Privacy Badger 2019.1.30

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: release-2018.12.17...release-2019.1.30

Privacy Badger 2018.12.17

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 #2249 (comment) for a workaround.
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish)

Full changeset: release-2018.12.5...release-2018.12.17

Privacy Badger 2018.12.5

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: release-2018.10.3.1...release-2018.12.5

Privacy Badger 2018.10.3.1

Highlights:

• Fixed style problems with Google Search results
• Fixed the setting to open results in new browser windows on Google Search

Full changeset: release-2018.10.3...release-2018.10.3.1

Privacy Badger 2018.10.3

Highlights:

• Added protection against outgoing link click tracking on Google Search, Google Docs and Google Hangouts (blog post)
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Finnish translations
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese)

Full changeset: release-2018.9.20...release-2018.10.3

Privacy Badger 2018.9.20

Highlights:

• Added buttons to back up and restore the disabled sites list using Firefox/Google Sync. The new buttons live under the Manage Data tab on the options page.
• Added saving of in-progress error reports so that you no longer lose your typing when you close the popup for whatever reason
• Fixed popup layout problems when opened in the overflow menu in Firefox
• Updated popup and options to use a higher resolution Badger logo on higher pixel density displays
• Fixed problems with broken fonts and images on Google Docs
• Improved translations (Traditional Chinese, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)

Full changeset: release-2018.8.22...release-2018.9.20

Privacy Badger 2018.8.22

Highlights:

• Added pre-trained tracker data for new Privacy Badger installations. Visit https://www.eff.org/badger-pretraining to learn more.
• Added reset/clear tracker data buttons to the Manage Data options page tab
• Fixed various site breakages
• Added Persian and Brazilian Portuguese translations
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Danish, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Swedish)

Full changeset: release-2018.8.1...release-2018.8.22

Privacy Badger 2018.8.1

Highlights:

• Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement. Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities.
• Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain
• Improved translations (Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Full changeset: release-2018.7.18.1...release-2018.8.1

Privacy Badger 2018.7.18.1

Highlights:

• Added setting to disable sending Do Not Track to websites
• Fixed security issue with link unwrapping on Facebook. Thanks to Cure53 for discovering and reporting this vulnerability.
• Improved ordering of domain names in the popup and on the options page
• Improved handling of disabled sites with wildcards
• Added t.co link replacement to user profiles on Twitter
• Fixed various site breakages
• Improved translations (Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, German, Russian, Swedish, Turkish)

Full changeset: release-2018.5.10...release-2018.7.18.1