Announcing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released Privacy Badger, its free tracker-blocking browser extension, for Safari on macOS, requiring Safari version 26.5 or higher. The tool, already used by more than four million people on other browsers, is designed to block online trackers and limit data collection by advertisers and data brokers.
Why this matters: Safari has always been the holdout for Privacy Badger, and that gap mattered because millions of people chose Safari partly for its privacy reputation, then had fewer tools to back that up. Tracker blocking is one of the simplest, most direct things a person can do to stop companies from building a profile on them. This gives Safari users on Mac a free, well-tested option from a credible nonprofit. Install it once and it works quietly in the background, which is exactly how privacy tools should work.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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