[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-eff-brings-privacy-badger-tracker-blocker-to-safari-on-macos":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},11858,"eff-brings-privacy-badger-tracker-blocker-to-safari-on-macos","EFF Brings Privacy Badger Tracker Blocker to Safari on macOS","Privacy Badger blocks trackers from loading in Safari on macOS, a step past the browser's built-in approach of limiting what they can see.","The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS, a free extension that stops trackers from loading at all instead of just limiting what they can collect.\n\nIt requires Safari 26.5 or later. Privacy Badger already exists for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, which makes Safari the late arrival among the browsers it supports.\n\nThe EFF says the extension learns on its own. It uses algorithmic methods to decide what counts as tracking, so it can catch hidden trackers without relying only on a fixed list. It also leaves ads alone unless those ads are trackers too. That is a narrower target than a typical ad blocker, which goes after ads as a category.\n\nThe contrast with Safari's own protections is the interesting part. Safari already limits how much information trackers can reach, but it lets them load. Privacy Badger blocks them from loading, and the EFF says techniques that bypass Safari's protections do not work against it. That is the group's claim about its own tool, and no independent testing was cited.\n\nThe distinction matters because limiting a tracker and blocking it are different bets. Limiting assumes the browser can keep pace with every workaround a tracker invents. Blocking denies the tracker the chance to run in the first place. For Safari users who like the browser's defaults, this adds a second layer without turning off ads wholesale.\n\nThe scope is also narrow. The EFF's announcement mentions only macOS, so the extension is not described as covering Safari on other Apple devices.","[\"privacy\",\"safari\",\"browser-extensions\",\"eff\"]","2026-10-19T21:10:19.000Z","2026-10-19T22:04:39.794Z","2026-10-19T22:04:42.229Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the unsupported 'announced on October 19' date, since the MacRumors source says only 'today' and a Safari 26.5 requirement doesn't fit an October launch, then recheck every other specific against the source and keep the rest of the analysis.","resolved","software",[32,33,34,35],"privacy","safari","browser-extensions","eff",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"MacRumors","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.macrumors.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F19\u002Feff-privacy-badger-safari\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,73,78,83,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7040,"2026-10-18T11:00:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1012,"2026-10-19T20:45:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",543,"2026-10-19T20:21:53.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",531,"2026-10-19T17:21:45.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",268,"2026-10-19T15:49:37.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",244,"2026-10-19T20:31:09.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Science","science",206,"2026-10-19T19:27:24.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":80,"count":81,"latest_published_at":82},"Startups","startups",134,"2026-10-18T12:02:57.000Z",{"name":84,"slug":30,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Software",132,"2026-10-19T22:35:24.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",118,"2026-10-16T15:52:39.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"General","general",87,"2026-10-19T22:12:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Gaming","gaming",79,"2026-10-19T20:44:12.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",37,"2026-10-14T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]