Privacy Badger
#115 of 19,279 by installs on Edge · #89 of 8,290 in Productivity
First seen by this census 09/02/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 09/15/2026
Tracked since 09/02/2026
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Category: Productivity
Description
Automatically learns to block hidden trackers. Made by leading digital rights nonprofit EFF to stop companies from spying on you.
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Growth
Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. This store refreshes its install counts only occasionally, so these figures usually read 0 even for a listing that is growing - the weekly change in ratings under Rating above is the better signal here. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 1.1 days |
| week | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 8.9 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
History
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Ratings
Average rating
Permissions
Access level: Extensive — Reaches every website you visit, and holds a powerful capability as well.
- Reads and changes your data on all websites
- View and change your browser's privacy and security settings
- See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
Ad blockers, password managers and VPNs need this kind of access to do their job. This describes what the extension can reach, not how it behaves.
Manifest V3
Reads and changes your data on all websites ⚠
- alarms — Schedule its code to run at a later time
- declarativeNetRequest — Block or modify web requests using a predefined rule set
- privacy ⚠ — View and change your browser's privacy and security settings
- scripting — Run scripts on web pages you visit
- storage — Save its own settings and data locally
- tabs — See your open tabs and the pages you're on
- webNavigation — See what pages you navigate to and when
- webRequest ⚠ — See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
Version history
| Version | First observed |
|---|---|
| 2026.9.15 | 09/15/2026 |
| 2026.8.7 | 09/10/2026 |