Does anyone have experience or opinions on Block Party, a browser extension which supposedly checks your settings for privacy issues on several popular websites?
I heard about it from a November article in the Washington Post (Gift Link).
This September Washington Post article (Gift Link) mentions another extension and an app to help with website privacy settings:
Thank you for your input.
I’ve been using Privacy Badger for years. Works OK for me. Once in a while you have to tinker with the settings for a specific site but it’s easy to do.
I am another long-time user of Privacy Badger (on Firefox). I haven’t ever had any problems or issues caused by it…keeping in mind that I use different browsers for different purposes (trusted sites where I am registered vs. general browsing).
I’ve considered Permssion Slip in the past but decided not to install it because it is run by a third party company that I wasn’t able to research to my satisfaction.
I bought the annual subscription for Block Party and wrote about it in my quarterly column in our local newspaper.
tl;dr I liked it.
Apparently, EFF’s Badger extension is not available on Safari at this time.
macOS support is under development:
Unfortunately, “Safari on iOS seems to lack certain extension capabilities required by Privacy Badger to function properly.”
I have used Permission Slip and it seems to work OK, although some of the companies I requested my data to be removed says they won’t do it. The ‘plus’ version of the app (which I don’t pay for) costs $19.99 per month or $59.99 per year.