Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers

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p class=”subhead”>Today we are introducing Badger Swarm, a new tool for Privacy Badger that runs distributed Badger Sett scans in the cloud. Badger Swarm helps us continue updating and growing Privacy Badger’s tracker knowledge, as well as continue adding new ways of catching trackers. Thanks to continually expanding Badger Swarm-powered training, Privacy Badger comes packed with its largest blocklist yet.

Privacy Badger is defined by its automatic learning. As we write in the FAQ, Privacy Badger was born out of our desire for an extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker that violated consent, and that would use algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn’t tracking. But when and where that learning happens has evolved over the years.

When we first created Privacy Badger, every Privacy Badger installation started with no tracker knowledge and learned to block trackers as you browsed. This meant that every Privacy Badger became stronger, smarter, and more bespoke over time. It also meant that all learning was siloed, and new Privacy Badgers didn’t block anything until th

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