Why BlockIs Privacy Badger breaking a site?
Privacy Badger, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, blocks third-party domains that track you across websites. Sometimes the same domain also serves something the page needs, like a comments widget, a video embed or a sign-in button.
Updated November 2026. Menus move around between versions: if a label is a little different, look for the closest match.
Quick test
- Click the Privacy Badger icon.
- Choose Disable for this site.
- Reload. If the page works, Privacy Badger was the cause. Re-enable it and use the narrower fix below.
Find the domain it blocked
The Privacy Badger popup lists every third-party domain on the page with a three-position slider:
- Red: blocked completely.
- Yellow: allowed to load, but without cookies.
- Green: allowed.
Red domains are the likely culprits. Look for one that matches the broken feature (a video, comments or chat service, or a content delivery network).
Fix it narrowly
- Move the culprit’s slider from red to yellow and reload. That usually fixes it while still stopping cookie-based tracking.
- If yellow isn’t enough, try green for that domain only.
- Replaced widgets: Privacy Badger swaps some embeds (social buttons, comments, videos) for a placeholder. Click the placeholder to load it once, or allow it on this site.
Good to know
- Slider changes and disabled sites are remembered, and are listed in Privacy Badger’s options if you want to undo them.
- Privacy Badger often blocks the same trackers as uBlock Origin or your browser. Whichever blocks first is the one that counts, so a site can stay broken until you allow it in each.