A combination of a user tool and a larger research project, Panopticlick analyzes information about the configuration and version information of your operating system, browser, plug-ins, and add-ons, and compares it to a growing anonymous database of other browser fingerprints. Panopticlick investigates how unique each browser is-and shows users just how easy it is for third parties to uniquely identify their browsers. It does this by unblocking content from domains which respect our Do Not Track policy, which states that the participating site will not retain any information about users who have expressed that they do not want to be tracked.Įven if you use Privacy Badger and other privacy-protecting add-ons, you can still possibly be tracked through a technique called “browser fingerprinting”. Privacy Badger encourages advertisers to treat users respectfully and anonymously rather than the industry status quo of online tracking. Although Privacy Badger blocks many ads in practice, it is more a privacy tool than a strict ad blocker. Privacy Badger puts you back in control by spotting and then blocking third-party domains that seem to be tracking your browsing habits. Third-party tracking-that is, when advertisers and websites track your browsing activity across the web without your knowledge, control, or consent-is an alarmingly widespread practice in online advertising. In different ways, they all function to increase your security on the Internet-with the implicit assertion that personal privacy is at the foundation of that security. Where users face threats to their free expression, privacy, and security online, EFF’s technology projects are there to defend them.īelow we go over five of EFF’s many technology tools and projects. Our projects are released under free and open source licenses like the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, and we make them freely available to as many users as possible. We engineer solutions to these problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more.
Do you get creeped out when an ad eerily related to your recent Internet activity seems to follow you around the web? Do you ever wonder why you sometimes see a green lock with “https” in your address bar, and other times just plain “http”? EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists can help.
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