Privacy Badger
E131669
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks invisible trackers and intrusive ads to protect users’ online privacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Privacy Badger canonical | 2 |
| EFF Privacy Badger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159303 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Privacy Badger Context triple: [Electronic Frontier Foundation, notableWork, Privacy Badger]
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A.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
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B.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention
Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a Safari privacy technology that uses machine learning to limit cross-site tracking and reduce advertisers’ ability to follow users across the web.
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C.
Avast Secure Browser
Avast Secure Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed by Avast that emphasizes security features like built-in ad blocking, anti-tracking, and protection against malicious websites.
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D.
Brave web browser
Brave web browser is a privacy-focused, open-source web browser known for its built-in ad and tracker blocking and optional cryptocurrency-based rewards system for users and publishers.
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E.
Slimjet
Slimjet is a Chromium-based web browser known for its built-in privacy tools, ad blocking, and performance optimizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Privacy Badger Target entity description: Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks invisible trackers and intrusive ads to protect users’ online privacy.
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A.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
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B.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention
Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a Safari privacy technology that uses machine learning to limit cross-site tracking and reduce advertisers’ ability to follow users across the web.
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C.
Avast Secure Browser
Avast Secure Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed by Avast that emphasizes security features like built-in ad blocking, anti-tracking, and protection against malicious websites.
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D.
Brave web browser
Brave web browser is a privacy-focused, open-source web browser known for its built-in ad and tracker blocking and optional cryptocurrency-based rewards system for users and publishers.
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E.
Slimjet
Slimjet is a Chromium-based web browser known for its built-in privacy tools, ad blocking, and performance optimizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
browser extension
ⓘ
privacy tool ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
EFF Privacy Badger
ⓘ
linked to:
Privacy Badger
|
| compatibleWith |
Chromium-based browsers
ⓘ
Google Chrome ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ Opera ⓘ |
| creator | Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| developer | Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| distributionMethod | browser extension stores ⓘ |
| feature |
allows users to whitelist specific domains
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automatically learns to block trackers based on behavior ⓘ blocks social media widgets that track users ⓘ blocks third-party tracking cookies ⓘ blocks tracking images ⓘ blocks tracking scripts ⓘ does not rely on a static blocklist ⓘ integrates with browser extension APIs ⓘ provides per-site control over blocked domains ⓘ shows a toolbar icon with blocking status ⓘ supports Do Not Track policy enforcement ⓘ upgrades connections to HTTPS when possible ⓘ uses heuristic algorithms to detect trackers ⓘ |
| genre | privacy-focused browser add-on ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | EFF privacy and security tools ecosystem ⓘ |
| license | free and open-source software license ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
online advertising
ⓘ
online privacy ⓘ third-party cookies ⓘ tracking protection ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
macOS ⓘ |
| platform | web browsers ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
CSS
ⓘ
HTML ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ |
| publisher | Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| purpose |
to block intrusive ads
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to block invisible trackers ⓘ to protect users' online privacy ⓘ |
| securityPolicy |
focuses on minimizing tracking rather than blocking all ads
ⓘ
respects non-tracking commitments from websites ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
ad blocker
ⓘ
tracking protection software ⓘ |
| softwareHelpPage | https://privacybadger.org/#faq ⓘ |
| softwareVersion | various actively maintained versions ⓘ |
| website | https://privacybadger.org ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Privacy Badger Description of subject: Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks invisible trackers and intrusive ads to protect users’ online privacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Privacy Badger