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    Privacy Badger detected 0 potential trackers on this page. These sliders let you
    control how Privacy Badger handles each one. You shouldn't need to adjust them
    unless something is broken.
    The domains below don't appear to be tracking you
    scout-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com
    cdn.embedly.com
    fonts.googleapis.com
    www.google.com
    fonts.gstatic.com

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I can confirm navs is correct. Brave Browser indicates blocking of 9 trackers:

  https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id
  https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js
  https://api.segment.io/v1/p
  https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
  https://widget.intercom.io/widget/
  https://api.mixpanel.com/decide/
  https://api.mixpanel.com/track/
  https://api.segment.io/v1/t
  https://api.mixpanel.com/track/

OK, so why the difference?

I'm using Firefox 51.0.1 with Privacy Badger 2017.1.26, NoScript 2.9.5.3 and Adblock Plus 2.8.2.

Edit: OK, so I had doubleclick.net, facebook.com, google-analytics.com and mxpnl.com untrusted in NoScript. After trusting them all, Privacy Badger still reports no tracking, but lists these trackers:

    cdn.embedly.com
    connect.facebook.net
    www.google-analytics.com
    fonts.googleapis.com
    www.google.com

Strange. So is Privacy Badger failing to detect tracking?

I'm going to take a wild guess here, It's probably NoScript preventing the tracking code form being loaded before ABP can perform detections?

Well, I did trust/allow domains in NoScript. But I gather that NoScript does other stuff by default. And there's also the fact that I'm blocking WebRTC.

Mostly I was just worried that Privacy Badger was failing.

Not entirely sure. Could be a side effect of the combination of extensions. On iOS I tend to simply disable javascript. Blocks much of what needs blocking.

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