Bug#748081: RFP: xul-ext-privacy-badger -- Web browser plugin for blocking spying ads and invisible trackers

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : xul-ext-privacy-badger
  Version         : 0.1.3
  Upstream Author : Yan Zhu <yan@eff.org>
* URL             : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: Javascript
  Description     : Web browser plugin for blocking spying ads and invisible trackers

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other
third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what
pages you look at on the web.  If an advertiser seems to be tracking
you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger
automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in
your browser.  To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.

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other notes:

It looks like Privacy Badger might share some code from AdBlock Plus
(already in debian).

Source code appears to be at:

 https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox

There is also 

 https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome

I don't know about packaging chrome/chromium extensions in debian, but
that might also be desirable.

         --dkg