[secede] -- Privacy Badger
The cliche says that knowledge is power. In our era, *data* is power. We must control the information that we take into our minds as well as the information that we unwittingly give away.
Many sites use trackers to monitor our activity across the web. Such large scale data collection programs give these companies (and therefore governments) an extremely accurate picture of trends in the zeitgeist. By squashing an idea here and boosting one there, they can prod us in their desired direction.
Privacy Badger automatically learns which trackers follow us around and blocks them. No technical knowledge is required. This free and open source “set it and forget it” extension reduces our outgoing data from a firehouse to a dripping faucet.