Regular Opera or Opera GX or Opera Crypto?
What version of Opera as seen at the URL opera://about?
Are you talking about https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp or https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/privacy-badger/?
What gets broken with the extension after an update? Does it get removed after every Opera update and you have to reinstall it?. Or, does it shows errors for it at the URL opera://extensions where you then have to uninstall it and reinstall it? Or, do all your settings for it get cleared after an Opera update? Or, what specific thing doesn't work now that used to, and steps to reproduce the problem?
Did you disable all your other extensions one by one and restart Opera to test if one of your other extensions is interfering?