EFF: Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking
Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking With its latest update, Privacy Badger now fights “link tracking” in a number of Google products. Link tracking allows a company to follow you whenever you click on a link to leave its website. Earlier this year, EFF rolled out a Privacy Badger update targeting Facebook’s use of this practice . As it turns out, Google performs the same style of tracking, both in web search and, more concerning, in spaces for private conversation like Hangouts and comments on Google Docs. From now on, Privacy Badger will protect you from Google’s use of link tracking in all of these domains. Google Link Tracking in Search, Hangouts, and Docs This update targets link tracking in three different products: Google web search, Hangouts, and the Docs suite (which includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides). In each place, Google uses a variation of the same technique to track the links you click on. Google Web Search After y...