Excellent Firefox Privacy Add-ons
Improve your privacy with these excellent Firefox add-ons.
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title="Privacy Badger: Stop Tracking"
image="/assets/img/addons/privacy-badger.png"
description="Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. Privacy Badger learns about trackers as you browse."
website="https://www.eff.org/privacybadger"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-privacy-badger/265"
github="https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger"
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title="uBlock Origin: Block Ads and Trackers"
image="/assets/img/addons/ublock-origin.png"
description="uBlock Origin is an efficient wide-spectrum-blocker that's easy on memory, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there. It has no monetization strategy and is completely open source."
website="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-ublock-origin/266"
github="https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/"
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title="Cookie AutoDelete: Automatically Delete Cookies"
image="/assets/img/addons/cookie-autodelete.png"
description="Cookie AutoDelete automatically removes cookies when they are no longer used by open browser tabs. With the cookies, lingering sessions, as well as information used to spy on you, will be expunged."
website="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-cookie-autodelete/267"
github="https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete"
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title="HTTPS Everywhere: Secure Connections"
image="/assets/img/addons/https-everywhere.png"
description="HTTPS Everywhere encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. A collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
website="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-https-everywhere/268"
github="https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere"
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title="Decentraleyes: Block Content Delivery Networks"
image="/assets/img/addons/decentraleyes.png"
description="Decentraleyes emulates Content Delivery Networks locally by intercepting requests, finding the required resource and injecting it into the environment. This all happens instantaneously, automatically, and no prior configuration is required."
website="https://decentraleyes.org/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-decentraleyes/269"
gitlab="https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes"
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title="Terms of Service; Didn’t Read: Be Informed"
image="/assets/img/addons/tosdr.png"
description="Terms of Service; Didn’t Read “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. This addon aims to fix that by grading websites based on their Terms of Service agreements and gives short summaries."
website="https://tosdr.org/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-decentraleyes/270"
github="https://github.com/tosdr/"
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The following add-ons require quite a lot of interaction from the user to get things working. Some sites will not work properly until you have configured the add-ons.
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title="uMatrix: Stop Cross-Site Requests"
image="/assets/img/addons/umatrix.png"
description="uMatrix gives you control over the requests that websites make to other websites. Many websites integrate features which let other websites track you, such as Facebook Like Buttons or Google Analytics. This gives you greater and more fine-grained control over the information that you leak online."
website="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/umatrix/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-umatrix/271"
github="https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix"
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title="NoScript Security Suite: Be in total control"
image="/assets/img/addons/noscript.png"
description="NoScript is a highly customizable plugin to selectively allow JavaScript, Java, and Flash to run only on websites you trust. Not for casual users, it requires technical knowledge to configure."
website="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/noscript/"
discussion="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-noscript-security-suite/272"
github="https://github.com/hackademix/noscript"
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