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Constantly running into the "Reload this page to apply your updated settings" dialog #3070

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GerrysApps opened this issue Mar 9, 2025 · 10 comments
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I find pb often interferes with websites basic functionality and often need to disable it, but I can't disable it, instead I get this dialog, even though I haven't done anything yet:

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The old version of pb did not work this way. I have not yet made any settings changes so why is it asking me to reload?

I'm using chromium.

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ghostwords commented Mar 9, 2025

Hello, thanks for opening an issue!

Could you share the steps for seeing this dialog?

Generally speaking, to disable Privacy Badger on a site:

  1. Click on Privacy Badger's icon in your browser toolbar
  2. Click the "Disable for this site" button in Privacy Badger's popup

If you don't see PB's icon in your browser toolbar, it's probably hidden inside the "puzzle piece" icon.

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I'm using the nightly build of chromium, although I certainly don't update nightly

go to a website that you have never been to before
(I have the pb icon always visible)
click the pb icon
the dialog shown above appears

expecting to get the enable/disable dialog and not have to reload the page

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ghostwords commented Mar 10, 2025

I have never seen nor heard about this dialog. Could you confirm that you get it just by clicking on Privacy Badger's icon in your browser toolbar? I'm attaching a screenshot of what that looks like (dark theme):

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When you say you click on the icon, are you left- or right- clicking on the icon?

By any chance, have you changed site permissions for Privacy Badger? Privacy Badger requires "This can read and change site data" to be set to "all sites". Could you see if that's not the case?

  1. Right-click on PB's icon
  2. Select "This can read and change site data"
  3. Select "On all sites"

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please review what I wrote above, yes I just click but not sure which mouse button, I will give it a try this evening and see which button my finger chooses, its just completely automatic at this point. what happens when you use left vs right?

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Left click brings up Privacy Badger's popup. The popup has the "Disable for this site" button.

Right click brings up a Chrome extension menu. This menu lets you do a bunch of things, but none of them open Privacy Badger's popup.

The right-click menu contains the "This can read and change site data" entry. This controls site permissions for the extension. I think the problem is that your site permissions for Privacy Badger are not set to what they should be. Here is a screenshot of what they should be:

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ghostwords commented Mar 10, 2025

I find pb often interferes with websites basic functionality

By the way, have you reported your issues using the "Report broken site" button? It's right next to the "Disable for this site" button in Privacy Badger's popup.

I'm also happy to look into specific broken sites if you tell me what they are.

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It's also possible you have a new version of the "puzzle piece" extenions menu that looks like the following:

new extension menu

If you do, let us know please. It appears that this new menu goes out of its way to make it easy to break your extensions for yourself.

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@GerrysApps Have you had a chance to look into Privacy Badger's site permissions?

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Yes I do have that new "puzzle piece" you mention above.
I found "this can read and change site data", not always there but seems to be grayed out if it is there.

I seem to be having difficulty reproducing the error now as well. I just visited a few sites I have never been to with this browser and privacy badger is working normally.

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OK, thank you for the update. Let me know if anything changes please.

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