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EFF Brings Privacy Badger Tracker Blocker to Safari on macOS

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation released Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS on October 19, 2026. The free tracker-blocking extension, which EFF says more than 4 million people already use on other browsers, requires Safari 26.5 or higher and installs through the Mac App Store.

Safari support had been one of Privacy Badger's most requested features for years, EFF said in its announcement , and recent improvements in Safari's extension support made the port possible. With it, Privacy Badger now runs on all major desktop browsers. EFF said it will look into Safari for iOS once it has ironed out any issues on macOS.

What it adds to Safari

In its default browsing mode, Safari limits the information trackers can access but still lets them load. Privacy Badger blocks trackers from loading in the first place, which EFF says stops tracking techniques that bypass Safari's protections.…

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