EFF Releases Privacy Badger as Do Not Track Tool

If you’re concerned about how much tracking is being done as you click around on the internet, and you probably should be, one easy thing you can do is grab Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Install it in your browser to enable it to do some automatic detecting and blocking of tracking cookies.

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