Privacy Tweaks for Firefox

The ever-growing number of online threats and tracking attempts determine users to seek new ways to protect their identity and enhance their privacy while navigating throughout the cyberspace. Websites collect information about their visitors and store cookies not just to enhance the user’s experience, but mostly for targeted advertisements.

Fortunately, there are methods to safeguard your private information and reduce the amount of data shared with the visited webpages. One of them is installing an extension such as Privacy Tweaks in your browser.

Privacy Tweaks for Firefox brings to the table a set of options meant to erase your online fingerprints and leave as less traces as possible behind. The addon is easily installed in Firefox and, in an instant, the new icon is shown in the browser toolbar. Clicking on it reveals the main menu, which includes a list of all the available tweaks, as described below.

The Privacy Tweaks addon features an ad blocker, which removes commons advertisements on the pages you access. It can also block other tracking attempts, along with the WebRTC service, which is designed to share your computer’s IP address with a page. The timezone and the geolocation can be changed with Privacy Tweaks, by entering the new timezone and geographical location in the Settings area. Moreover, the extension comes with integrated proxy support.

Privacy Tweaks can help you erase other footprints you leave behind. To be more specific, it can also block canvas, WebGL, font and audio content fingerprints.

The options you check in the list of Privacy Tweaks are automatically applied to all the pages you visit. However, if you want to exclude some webpages, keep in mind that Privacy Tweaks enables you to create an URL whitelist.

Working with Privacy Tweaks is extremely easy, as all it takes to apply the tweaks is select their corresponding checkboxes, no browser restart required. It bundles a set of privacy-related options, bringing together ad and tracking blockers, along with proxy and identity protection tools.