Privacy Badger is not inherently “better” than traditional adblockers because it is fundamentally a privacy-focused tracker blocker, not an adblocker. While a traditional adblocker aims to clean up your screen by blocking all visible ads, Privacy Badger by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) aims to stop third-party scripts from quietly building a profile about you across the web. Because most online advertisements rely heavily on tracking scripts to function, Privacy Badger ends up blocking many ads as a side effect, but it will completely ignore non-tracking ads. Key Differences At A Glance
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