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* It is not necessarily possible to identify what a tracker even is by just looking at requests, without having a way to know if the values sent (e.g. cookies, query params, etc.) are unique to a specific users or shared by many. [^5]
### Do I still need Privacy Badger?
TL;DR: [Privacy Badger is easily detected](https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/) and additional blocking via [heuristics](https://privacybadger.org/#How-does-Privacy-Badger-work) is redundant or negligible when using Ghostery or uBlock Origin (depending on your configuration). [^16]
TL;DR: [Privacy Badger is easily detected](https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/) and additional blocking via [heuristics](https://privacybadger.org/#How-does-Privacy-Badger-work) is redundant or negligible when using Ghostery or uBlock Origin (depending on your configuration). [^16] In fact, as of late 2020, it is only using [static filters by default](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changing-protect-you-better). Privacy Badger used to "learn" about trackers, but this was turned off as a default because of security and fingerprinting concerns.
Compared to Ghostery specifically: [Privacy Badger](http://https://privacybadger.org) is the only other popular extension which uses some kind of heuristics to block tracking. There are some fundamental differences in how Privacy Badger and Ghostery work, though.