Regardless of which browser you use, a pack of extensions can increase your privacy by decreasing your exposure to trackers, as well as have the welcome side effect of boosting your security. (Most Chrome extensions will also work with Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, though we haven’t fully tested them.) Of the two, I recommend Firefox if you prioritize privacy, as it’s much more focused on privacy out of the box compared with Chrome. Not all browsers offer the exact same extensions, but Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the two most popular browsers, and the ones I focus on here. But in exchange for the occasional slight headache, companies will have a harder time tracking what you do online. Sometimes a browser extension might cause a website to display text strangely, prevent embedded images or tweets from loading on a page, or remove the little social media buttons that make it easy to share an article. Privacy almost always comes at the cost of usability. But browser extensions are simple, generally free add-ons that you can use to slow down or break this type of data collection, without completely ruining your experience of using the internet. This extension can store an unlimited amount of client-side data.Everything you do online-from browsing to shopping to using social networks-is tracked, typically as behavioral or advertising data.This extension can access your tabs and browsing activity.This extension will add a panel to the sidebar.This extension can manipulate privacy-related settings.This extension can access your data on some websites.This extension can access your data on all websites.So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free. Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. Yet, even after adding Fanboy's two extra lists, hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers, uBlock still has a lower memory footprint than other very popular blockers out there.Īlso, be aware that selecting some of these extra lists may lead to higher likelihood of web site breakage - especially those lists which are normally used as hosts file. Of course, the more filters enabled, the higher the memory footprint. More lists are available for you to select if you wish:
Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced: It applies to the current web site only, it is not a global power button.įlexible, it's more than an "ad blocker": it can also read and create filters from hosts files. Usage: The big power button in the popup is to permanently disable/enable uBlock for the current web site. An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there.
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