New Privacy Badger removes tracking links in more Google products

Privacy Badger dev here.

The most interesting thing from the post may be that fixing tracking redirects is partially broken in Google’s Manifest V3: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302

Google also happens to be a major link mangler and tracker.

So, link cleaner (and generally privacy) MV3 extensions in Chrome can only offer a half-broken experience to their users. A Chrome dev recently expressed support for fixing this in the issue linked above, but MV3 is already required for all new extensions in Chrome Web Store.

This is a very well-written page. It's short while still providing enough technical substance to get a good sense of what PB does or is doing differently with references for more info.

I immediately installed it on Firefox and now as a bonus (on top of privacy), I shouldn't see random delays when opening links from search results.