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Any idea what's the difference between Privacy Badger and Self Destructing Cookies addon? I would think SDC will also stop any tracking by deleting the cookies?

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Privacy Badger currently detects tracking via regular cookies, HTML5 local storage 'cookies', and canvas fingerprinting, with more methods aimed to be supported in future releases

What other tracking methods does Privacy Badger plan to block in future releases? One can always test against evercookie.[0] And perhaps EFF could host a trustable demo site, along the lines of Panopticlick. I do get that this is an arms race, and that proprietary methods may be running under the radar, as Verizon's UIDH did for two years.[1]

[0] https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_c...

As many as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :)

Good starting places for the current heuristics:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr... https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

It won't currently block most of the evercookie tests, since it currently only targets 3rd-party tracking.

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